Essential statistics for medical practice : a case study approach /: a case study approach. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: D.G. Rees.
• Other Names: Rees, D. G
• Contents: Overview of the use of basic statistical methods in medical studies -- pt. 1. Discussion of Case Studies. 1. Preliminary trial of the effect of general practice based nutritional advice. 2. Randomized controlled trial of anti-smoking advice by nurses in general practice. 3. Psychological distress: outcome and consultation rates in one general practice. 4. Use of regression analysis to explain the variation in prescribing rates and costs between family practitioner committees. 5. Hidden psychiatric illness: use of the general health questionnaire in general practice. 6. A randomized controlled trial of surgery for glue ear -- pt. 2. Statistical Methods. 7. Data, tables, graphs, summary statistics and probability. 8. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for means. 9. More on comparing means, the analysis of variance and the F-test. 10. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for percentages. 11. Further tests for percentages. 12. Regression and correlation.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Subjects: 519.502461; Medical statistics; Biometry -- methods; Medical statistics; Statistiek; Geneeskunde
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351088800; 1351088807
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