
Statistics in Medicine
Description
Key Features
- Expands and revises important topics, such as basic concepts behind descriptive statistics and testing, descriptive statistics in three dimensions, the relationship between statistical testing and confidence intervals, and more
- Presents an easy-to-follow format with medical examples, step-by-step methods and check-yourself exercises
- Explains statistics for users with little statistical and mathematical background
- Encompasses all research development stages, from conceiving a study, planning it in detail, carrying out the methods, putting obtained data in analyzable form, analyzing and interpreting the results, and publishing the study
Readership
Biostatisticians, graduate students, biomedical and medical researchers, healthcare professionals
Table of Contents
1. Planning Studies: From Design to Publication
2. Planning Analysis: Addressing Your Scientific Objective
3. Probability and Relative Frequency
4. Distributions
5. Descriptive Statistics
6. Finding Probabilities
7. Hypothesis Testing: Concept and Practice
8. Confidence Intervals
9. Tests on Categorical Data
10. Risks, Odds, and ROC Curves
11. Tests of Location with Continuous Outcomes
12. Equivalence Testing
13. Tests on Variability and Distributions
14. Measuring Association and Agreement
15. Linear Regression and Correlation
16. Multiple Linear and Curvilinear Regression
17. Logistic Regression for Binary Outcomes
18. Regression Models for Count Outcomes
19. Analysis of Censored Time-To-Event Data
20. Analysis of Repeated Continuous Measures of Time
21. Sample Size Estimation
22. Clinical Trials and Group Sequential Analyses
23. Epidemiology and Alternative Sampling Designs
24. Meta Analyses
25. Bayesian Statistics
26. Questionnaires and Surveys
27. Techniques to Aid Analysis
28. Methods You Might Meet, But Not Every Day
Product details
- No. of pages: 822
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: July 3, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128153291
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128153284
About the Authors
Robert Riffenburgh
Affiliations and Expertise
Daniel Gillen
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Nikolaos K. Wed Mar 09 2022
Statistics in Medicine - gread book and guide
A great book for understanding fundamental concepts of statistics, but also a helpful guide for a physician in research domain(understand & apply knowledge).