Medical biostatistics. (2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: A. Indrayan.
• Other Names: Indrayan, Abhaya, 1945-
• Contents: Preface ; Medical Uncertainties ; 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; Some Examples of Sample Surveys; Designs for Observational Studies ; 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 Experiments; Clinical Trials ; Therapeutic Trials; Issues in Clinical Trials; Trials Other Than for 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; 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; An Initial Debate on Statistical Significance; Sample Size Determination in Some Cases; Inference from Proportions ; One Qualitative Variable; Proportions in 2 × 2 Tables; Analysis of R × C Tables (Large n ); Three-Way Tables; Relative Risk and Odds Ratio ; Relative and Attributable Risks (Large n ); Odds Ratio; Stratified Analysis and Sample Size; Inference from Means ; Comparison of Means in One and Two Groups (Gaussian Conditions): Student’s 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 Regression; Measuring the Strength of a Quantitative Relationship; Assessment of Agreement; Relationships: Qualitative Dependent ; Binary Dependent: Logistic Regression (Large n ); Inference from Logistic Coefficients; Issues in Logistic Regression; Some Models for Qualitative Data; Strength of Relationship in Quantitative 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; Errors in Presentation of Findings; Inadequate Analysis; Misinterpretation; Appendix 1: Statistical Software ; General Purpose Statistical Software; Special Purpose Statistical Software; Appendix 2: Some Statistical Tables ; Index ; References appear at the end of each chapter.
• Edition: 2nd ed
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2008
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 610.7/27; Medical statistics; Biometry; Biometry -- methods
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781584888888; 1584888881
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.