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"The third edition of this acclaimed text focuses on the statistical aspects of medicine with a medical perspective, showing how biostatistics is a useful tool to manage medical uncertainties. This edition provides expanded coverage of topics and includes software illustrations. The author pres...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Indrayan, Abhaya
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2013.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Biostatistics > methods.
Biometry > methods.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Medical uncertainties
  • 2. Basics of medical studies
  • 3. Sampling methods
  • 4. Designs for observational studies
  • 5. Medical experiments
  • 6. Clinical trials
  • 7. Numerical methods for representing variation
  • 8. Presentation of variation by figures
  • 9. Some quantitative aspects of medicine
  • 10. Clinimetrics and evidence-based medicine
  • 11. Measurement of community health
  • 12. Confidence intervals, principles of tests of significance, and sample size
  • 13. Inference from proportions
  • 14. Relative risk and odds ratio
  • 15. Inference from means
  • 16. Relationships : quantitative data
  • 17. Relationships : qualitative dependent
  • 18. Survival analysis
  • 19. Simultaneous consideration of several variables
  • 20. Quality considerations
  • 21. Statistical fallacies
  • Appendix A : Statistical software
  • Appendix B : Some statistical tables
  • Appendix C : Software illustrations.

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