Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health professionals / David Bowers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bowers, David, 1938-
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2008], ©2008.
Edition:	Second edition.
Subjects:	Medical statistics. Medicine > Research > Statistical methods. Biometry. Statistics as Topic > methods.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents only - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Format:	Book

Contents:

Some fundamental stuff
First things first : the nature of data
Describing data with tables
Describing data with charts
Describing data from its distributional shape
Describing data with numeric summary values
Doing it right first time : designing a study
From samples to populations : making inferences
Chance would be a fine thing - probability, risk and odds
Estimating the value of a single population parameter
Estimating the differences between two population parameters
Estimating the ratio of two population parameters
Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters
Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters
Testing hypotheses about the equality of two or more proportions
Measuring the association between two variables
Measuring the agreement between two variables
Straight-line models - linear regression
Curvy models - logistic regression
Measuring survival
Systematic review and meta-analysis.