| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 173 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Why data never speak for themselves -- Why you cannot believe your eyes -- Levels of evidence -- Bias -- Randomization -- Clinical trials : Improving on clinical experience -- The p-value : Uses and misuses -- Forget p-values : The importance of effect sizes -- Understanding placebo -- Understanding confidence intervals -- Observational studies -- The alchemy of meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics : Why your opinion counts -- Causation -- A philosophy of statistics -- Evidence-based medicine : Defense and criticism -- Social and economic factors : Peer review, funding, and the conventional wisdom -- The new canon of psychopharmacology : How clinical trials are misinterpreted -- False positive maintenance clinical trials in psychiatry -- How to analyze a study |
| Summary |
"This second edition is a description and application of statistical concepts, in plain English and without mathematical equations, to the experience and practice of average psychiatric clinicians"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Preceded by A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health / S. Nassir Ghaemi. 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 10, 2023) |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- Methods
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Psychiatry -- methods
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Statistics as Topic
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Mental Disorders -- epidemiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022033990 |
| ISBN |
9781108887526 |
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110888752X |
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