Introduction to Medical Statistics
Introduction to Medical Statistics
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9780199589920 |
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Paperback |
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6 Aug 2015 |
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Taking readers through the common statistical methods seen in published research and guidelines, the text focuses on how to interpret and analyse statistics for clinical practice. Using extracts from real studies, the author illustrates how data can be employed correctly and incorrectly in medical research helping readers to evaluate the statistics they encounter and appropriately implement findings in clinical practice.
End of chapter exercises, case studies and multiple choice questions help readers to apply their learning and develop their own interpretative skills. This thoroughly revised edition includes new chapters on meta-analysis, missing data, and survival analysis.
Contents
2: The Design of Experiments
3: Sampling and observational studies
4: Summarizing data
5: Presenting data
6: Probability
7: The Normal distribution
8: Estimation
9: Significance tests
10: Comparing the means of small samples
11: Regression and correlation
12: Methods based on rank order
13: The analysis of cross-tabulations
14: Choosing the statistical method
15: Multifactorial methods
16: Time to event data
17: Meta-analysis
18: Determination of sample size
19: Missing data
20: Clinical measurement
21: Mortality statistics and population structure
22: The Bayesian approach
23: Appendix A Suggested answers to exercises
Authors
Martin Bland , Professor of Health Statistics, University of York
J. Martin Bland, Professor of Health Statistics, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, UK
Reviews
`Review from previous edition The coverage may not be very different from that of other introductory texts, but in my view the style and content are, and they alone make this text one of the best of its kind. The approach is very data driven, and the use of real data makes this even more appealing...this is an excellent book -- in my view it should be the first choice for any student wanting a serious introduction to the practice of medical statistics. ' The Statistician
`If you want to understand some of the statistical ideas important to medicine but fear being overwhelmed by mathematics you will welcome An Introduction to Medical Statistics.' British Medical Journal
`At last I have a book on medical statistics that I can safely recommend to my students!...One of the pleasures of the book is that it contains real data.' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
`It is a book which I think anyone teaching an introductory course in medical statistics should seriously consider as the main text.' Statistics in Medicine