Basic & Clinical Biostatistics 4/E (EBOOK)
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1. Introduction to Medical Research
2. Study Designs in Medical Research
3. Summarizing Data & Presenting Data in Tables and Graphs
4. Probability & Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data
5. Research Questions about One Group
6. Research Questions about Two Separate or Independent Groups
7. Research Questions about Means in Three or More Groups
8. Research Questions about Relationships among Variables
9. Analyzing Research Questions about Survival
10. Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables
11. Survey Research
12. Methods of Evidence-Based Medicine & Decision Analysis
13. Reading the Medical Literature
Appendix A: Tables
Appendix B: Answers to Exercises
Appendix C: Flowcharts
Glossary
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Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.
- Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
- NEW chapter on survey research
- Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
- Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information
- Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
- Downloadable NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
- End-of-chapter exercises
- Multiple-choice final practice exam