Making Sense of Medical Statistics
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Making Sense of Medical Statistics
A Bite Sized Visual Guide
Hossain, Munier
Cambridge University Press
10/2021
160
Mole
Inglês
9781108978156
15 a 20 dias
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Preface; Acknowledgements; How to get the best out of this book; 1. Medicine and numbers: what is the connection?; 2. Measuring a variable: what is the difference between eye colour and height; 3. Summarising data: communicating easily; 4. Why average and range is not always enough: standard deviation and standard error; 5. The normal distribution: what's so 'normal' about it?; 6. Confidence interval: what is your guesstimate?; 7. Innocent until proven guilty! The null hypothesis; 8. Errors in hypothesis tests: learn your ? from your ?; 9. The randomized controlled trial: why does it have to be random?; 10. Choosing a statistical test: to t or not to t?; 11. Finding the odd one out: the ANOVA test; 12. Categorically different? The Chi-Squared test; 13. If the line fits: correlation and linear regression; 14. Hindsight is 20/20: logistic regression; 15. Don't risk the odds. risk vs odds as the outcome measure; 16. I will survive! Time to event data analysis; 17. High-ceiling or low threshold? Accuracy of a diagnostic test; 18. Apples or oranges? Meta-analysis of selected studies; 19. Lies, damned lies and statistics: untangling facts from fiction!; Glossary; Appendix 1. Are you ready to test yourself? Single Best Answer questionnaire; Appendix 2. Software and practice problems; Appendix 3. Practice database; Appendix 4. References and further reading; Appendix 5. Further resources.
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Preface; Acknowledgements; How to get the best out of this book; 1. Medicine and numbers: what is the connection?; 2. Measuring a variable: what is the difference between eye colour and height; 3. Summarising data: communicating easily; 4. Why average and range is not always enough: standard deviation and standard error; 5. The normal distribution: what's so 'normal' about it?; 6. Confidence interval: what is your guesstimate?; 7. Innocent until proven guilty! The null hypothesis; 8. Errors in hypothesis tests: learn your ? from your ?; 9. The randomized controlled trial: why does it have to be random?; 10. Choosing a statistical test: to t or not to t?; 11. Finding the odd one out: the ANOVA test; 12. Categorically different? The Chi-Squared test; 13. If the line fits: correlation and linear regression; 14. Hindsight is 20/20: logistic regression; 15. Don't risk the odds. risk vs odds as the outcome measure; 16. I will survive! Time to event data analysis; 17. High-ceiling or low threshold? Accuracy of a diagnostic test; 18. Apples or oranges? Meta-analysis of selected studies; 19. Lies, damned lies and statistics: untangling facts from fiction!; Glossary; Appendix 1. Are you ready to test yourself? Single Best Answer questionnaire; Appendix 2. Software and practice problems; Appendix 3. Practice database; Appendix 4. References and further reading; Appendix 5. Further resources.
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