Title Making sense of medical statistics : a bite sized visual guide / Munier Hossain, MBBS, FRCSGlag, FRCSG (Tr & Orth), PGCE, MSc (Orth Eng), MSc (Oxon), FHEA, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust ; illustrations and formatting by Inda Zubir B.Sc (Hons), M.Arch, RIBA III

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color) Contents How to get the best out of this book -- Medicine and numbers: where is the connection? -- Measuring a variable: why eye colour and height are different -- Summarising data: communicating easily -- Why average and range is not always enough: standard deviation and standard error -- The normal distribution: what’s so ‘normal’ about it? -- Confidence interval: what is your guesstimate? -- Innocent until proven guilty! The null hypothesis -- Errors in hypothesis tests: learn your á from your â -- The randomised controlled trial: why does it have to be random? -- Choosing a statistical test: to 't' or not to 't'? -- Finding the odd one out: the ANOVA test -- Categorically different? The chi-squared test -- If the line fits: correlation and linear regression -- Hindsight is 20/logistic regression -- Don’t risk the odds: risk versus odds as the outcome measure -- I will survive! Time to event data analysis -- High ceiling or low threshold? Accuracy of a diagnostic test -- Lies, damned lies and statistics: untangling facts from fiction! Summary "At first glance, medicine and numbers may appear far too much apart, but a closer inspection will tell a different story. In days gone by, people turned to ball-gazers in search of answers for health, happiness and future. We now live in a universe of big data. Where crystal balls, distant stars or dried bones once conspired to rule upon citizens' lives, information now reigns supreme. A random set of numbers is no good until we apply the powerful tool of data analysis. It is the best means we currently have of making a meaningful pattern out of a group of random numbers. The insight we gain helps us to make predictions for the future. Statistics is our modern-day crystal ball: it is the collection and analysis of data that is our window to the past, interpreter of the present and guide to the future. With the widespread availability of statistical software, the calculation of statistics is no longer complicated. The key to getting the right answer from our crystal ball is to appreciate when to choose which statistics and to recognise the nuances of the reply"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (Cambridge Core, viewed May 8, 2023) Subject Medical statistics. Statistics as Topic Biomedical Reserach -- methods MEDICAL / Epidemiology. Medical statistics Medicine -- Research -- Statistical methods Genre/Form Pictorial works Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108973663 1108973663

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