Medical biostatistics. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Abhaya Indrayan.
• Other Names: Indrayan, Abhaya, 1945-
• Contents: Medical Uncertainties; Role of Biostatistics; Uncertainties in Health and Disease; Uncertainties in Medical Research; Uncertainties in Health Planning and Evaluation; Management of Uncertainties: About This Book; ; Basics of Medical Studies; Study Protocol; Types of Medical Studies; Data Collection; Nonsampling Errors and Other Biases; ; Sampling Methods ; Sampling Concepts; Common Methods of Random Sampling; Some Other Methods of Sampling; ; Designs for Observational Studies ; Some Basic Concepts; Prospective Studies; Retrospective Studies; Cross-Sectional Studies; Comparative Performance of Prospective, Retrospective, and Cross-Sectional Studies; ; Medical Experiments ; Basic Features of Medical Experiments; Design of Experiments; Choice and Sampling of Units for Laboratory Experiments6; ; Clinical Trials ; Therapeutic Trials; Issues in Clinical Trials; Trials Other than Therapeutics; ; Numerical Methods for Representing Variation ; Types of Measurement; Tabular Presentation; Rates and Ratios; Central and Other Locations; Measuring Variability; ; Presentation of Variation by Figures ; Graphs for Frequency Distribution; Pie, Bar, and Line Diagrams; Special Diagrams in Health and Medicine; Charts and Maps; ; Some Quantitative Aspects of Medicine ; Some Epidemiological Measures of Health and Disease; Reference Values; Measurement of Uncertainty: Probability; Validity of Medical Tests; Search for the Best Threshold of Continuous Test: ROC Curve; ; Clinimetrics and Evidence-Based Medicine ; Indicators, Indexes, and Scores; Clinimetrics; Evidence-Based Medicine; ; Measurement of Community Health ; Indicators of Mortality; Measures of Morbidity; Indicators of Social and Mental Health; Composite Indexes of Health; ; Confidence Intervals, Principles of Tests of Significance, and Sample Size ; Sampling Distributions; Confidence Intervals; P -Values and Statistical Significance; Assessing Gaussian Pattern; Initial Debate on Statistical Significance; Sample Size Determination in Some Cases; ; Inference from Proportions ; One Qualitative Variable; Proportions in 2 x 2 Tables; Analysis of R x C Tables (Large n ); Three-Way Tables; Assessment of Association in Three-Way Tables; ; Relative Risk and Odds Ratio ; Relative and Attributable Risks (Large n ); Odds Ratio; Stratified Analysis, Sample Size, and Meta Analysis; ; Inference from Means ; Comparison of Means in One and Two Groups (Gaussian Conditions): Student t -Test; Comparison of Means in Three or More Groups (Gaussian Conditions): ANOVA F -Test; Non-Gaussian Conditions: Nonparametric Tests for Location; When Significant Is Not Significant; ; Relationships: Quantitative Data ; Some General Features of a Regression Setup; Linear Regression Models; Some Issues in Linear Regression; Measuring the Strength of Quantitative Relationship; Assessment of Quantitative Agreement; ; Relationships: Qualitative Dependent ; Binary Dependent: Logistic Regression (Large n ); Inference from Logistic Coefficients; Issues in Logistic Regression; Some Models for Qualitative Data and Generalizations; Strength of Relationship in Qualitative Variables; ; Survival Analysis ; Life Expectancy; Analysis of Survival Data; Issues in Survival Analysis; ; Simultaneous Consideration of Several Variables; Scope of Multivariate Methods; Dependent and Independent Sets of Variables; Identification of Structure in the Observations; ; Quality Considerations ; Statistical Quality Control in Medical Care; Quality of Measurements; Quality of Statistical Models: Robustness; Quality of Data; ; Statistical Fallacies ; Problems with the Sample; Inadequate Analysis; Errors in Presentation of Findings; Misinterpretation; ; Appendix A: Statistical Software ; Appendix B: Some Statistical Tables ; Appendix C: Software Illustrations ;
• Edition: 3rd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 610.727; Medical statistics; Biometry
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466513907
• Related ISBNs: 146651390X
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