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Second Edition
By
Robert Riffenburgh, Naval Medical Center, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Description
Medicine deals with treatments that work often but not always, so treatment success must be based on probability. Statistical methods
lift medical research from the anecdotal to measured levels of probability. This book presents the common statistical methods used in
90% of medical research, along with the underlying basics, in two parts: a textbook section for use by students in health care training
programs, e.g., medical schools or residency training, and a reference section for use by practicing clinicians in reading medical literature
and performing their own research. The book does not require a significant level of mathematical knowledge and couches the methods in
multiple examples drawn from clinical medicine, giving it applicable context.
Audience
Medical and public health students, both at the graduate and undergraduate level; physicians and researchers.
Contents
Foreword to the Second Edition, W. M. (Mike) O'Fallon, Professor Emeritus and former Head of Div. of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic
Foreword to the First Edition, Vice Adm. Richard A. Nelson, Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy
Databases
I. A Study Course
of Fundamentals
1. Data, Notation, and Some Basic Terms
2. Distributions
3. Summary Statistics
4. Confidence Intervals and Probability
5. Hypothesis Testing: Concept and Practice
6. Statistical Testing, Risks, and Odds in Medical Decisions
7. Sample Size Required for
a Study
8. Statistical Prediction
9. Epidemiology
10. Reading Medical Articles
Answers to Chapter Exercises, Part I
II. A Reference
Guide
11. Using the Reference Guide
12. Planning Medical Studies
13. Finding Probabilities of Error
14. Confidence Intervals
15. Tests on Categorical Data
16. Tests on Ranked Data
17. Tests on Means of Continuous Data
18. Multifactor Tests on Means of Continuous
Data
19. Tests on Variances of Continuous Data
20. Tests on the Distribution Shape of Continuous Data
21. Equivalence Testing
22. Sample
Size Required for a Study
23. Modeling and Clinical Decisions
24. Regression and Correlation Methods
25. Survival and Time-Series Analysis
26. Methods You Might Meet, But Not Every Day
Chapter Summaries
References and Data Sources
Tables of Probability Distributions
Symbol
Index
Subject Index
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Hardbound, 672 pages, publication date: AUG-2005
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-088770-5
ISBN-10: 0-12-088770-3
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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