Using and understanding medical statistics / David Edward Matthews, Vernon Todd Farewell.

Author/creator Matthews, David E., 1948- author.
Other author Farewell, Vernon T., author.
Format Book
Edition5th, revised and extended edition.
PublicationBasel ; New York : Karger, 2015.
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Contents Basic concepts -- Tests of significance -- Fisher's test for 2 x 2 contingency tables -- Approximate significance tests for contingency tables -- Some warnings concerning 2 x 2 tables -- Kaplan-Meier or 'actuarial' survival curves -- The log-rank or Mantel-Haenszel test for comparing survival curves --An introduction to the normal distribution -- Analyzing normally distributed data -- Linear regression models for medical data -- Binary logistic regression -- Regression models for count data -- Proportional hazards regression -- The analysis of longitudinal data -- Analysis of variance -- Data analysis -- The question of sample size -- The design of clinical trials -- Further comments regarding clinical trials -- Meta-analysis -- Epidemiological applications -- Diagnostic tests -- Agreement and reliability.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Technical details Mode of Access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2015021006
ISBN9783318054583 (hard cover : alk. paper)

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