Understanding biostatistics / Anders Källén.
"Understanding Biostatistics looks at the fundamentals of biostatistics, using elementary statistics and explores the nature of statistical tests, the tests that produces the p-values and basic aspects of clinical trials. The concept of distribution functions are discussed, including the Guassi...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. :
Wiley,
2011.
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| Series: | Statistics in practice.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Statistics and medical science
- Observational studies and the need for clinical trials
- Study design and the bias issue
- The anatomy of a statistical test
- Learning about parameters, and some notes on planning
- Empirical distribution functions
- Correlation and regression in bivariate distributions
- How to compare the outcome in two groups
- Least squares, linear models and beyond
- Analysis of dose response
- Hazards and censored data
- From the log-rank test to the Cox proportional hazards model
- Remarks on some estimation methods.