The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care
First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics
Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.
Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
NEW chapter on survey research
Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information
Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
Downloadable NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
End-of-chapter exercises
Multiple-choice final practice exam
Author(s): Beth Dawson, Robert G. Trapp
Edition: 4
Publisher: Lange Medical Books / McGraw-Hill
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 416
Tags: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Statistics, Clinical Statistics
Contents
1 Introduction to Medical Research 1
2 Study Designs in Medical Research 7
3 Summarizing Data Presenting Data in Tables Graphs 23
4 Probability Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data 61
5 Research Questions About One Group 93
6 Research Questions About Two Separate or Independent Groups 134
7 Research Questions About Means in Three or More Groups 162
8 Research Questions About Relationships Among Variables 190
11 Survey Research 280
12 Methods of EvidenceBased Medicine and Decision Analysis 302
13 Reading the Medical Literature 332
Tables 362
Answers to Exercises 372
Flowcharts for Relating Research Questions to Statistical Methods 398
Glossary 403
References 415
9 Analyzing Research Questions About Survival 221
10 Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables 245
Index 423
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