Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-584) and indexes.
Contents:
Data, notation, and some basic terms -- Distributions -- Summary statistics -- Confidence intervals and probability -- Hypothesis testing: concept and practice -- Statistical testing, risks, and odds in medical decisions -- Sample size required for a study -- Statistical prediction -- Epidemiology -- Reading medical articles -- Using the reference guide -- Planning medical studies -- Finding probabilities of error -- Confidence intervals -- Tests on categorical data -- Tests on ranked data -- Tests on means of continuous data -- Multifactor tests on means of continuous data -- Tests on variances of continuous data -- Tests on the distribution shape of continuous data -- Equivalence testing -- Sample size required in a study -- Modeling and clinical decisions -- Regression and correlation methods -- Survival and time-series analysis -- Methods you might meet, but not every day.
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