| Description |
viii, 218 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
What are statistics? -- Populations and samples -- Random sampling -- Presenting data -- Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Types of data -- Mean, median and mode -- Centiles -- Standard deviation -- Standard error -- Normal distribution -- Confidence intervals -- Probability -- Hypothesis tests and P-values -- The t-tests -- Data checking -- Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Correlation and linear regression -- Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chi-squared test -- Statistical power and samples size -- Effect size -- What is epidemiology? -- Bias and confounding -- Measuring disease frequncey -- Measuring association in epidemiology -- Prevalence studies -- Questionnaires -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Randomised controlled trials -- Screening -- Evidence-based healthcare |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Medical statistics.
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Epidemiology.
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Mathematical statistics.
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Epidemiologic Methods.
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Statistics as Topic -- methods.
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| LC no. |
2016000971 |
| ISBN |
9781785231162 (alkaline paper) |
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1785231162 (alkaline paper) |
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