Biostatistics for the Health Sciences

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This book provides a solid foundation in introductory biostatistics with up-to-date methods, lucid explanations, and a modern approach. Explains commonly used biostatistical methods, such as odds and risk ratios, and Fisher's exact test, in a clear and thorough manner. Introduces equivalence te...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: R. Clifford Blair
Other Authors: Richard A Taylor
Format: Printed Book
Published: Pearson 2008
Subjects:
Medical statistics. Biometry.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Foundations of biostatistics
  • 2. Descriptive methods
  • 3. Probability
  • 4. Introduction to inference and one sample methods
  • 5. Paired samples methods
  • 6. Two independent samples methods
  • 7. Multi-sample methods
  • 8. The assessment of relationships
  • 9. Linear regression
  • 10. Methods based on the permutation principle
  • App. A. Normal curve table
  • App. B. Critical values of student's distribution
  • App. C. Critical values of the F distribution
  • App. D. Critical values of the chi-square distribution
  • App. E. Critical values of q for Tukey's HSD test
  • App. F. Critical values of the rank correlation coefficient
  • App. G. Critical values for Wilcoxon's signed-ranks test
  • App. H. Critical values for Wilcoxon's rank-sum test
  • App. I. Critical values for the Kruskal-Wallis test.

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