Basic & Clinical Biostatistics 4/E (EBOOK)

by Beth Dawson, Robert G. Trapp

Overview

The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care

• First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
• A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
• Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071781329
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	04/15/2004
Series:	LANGE Basic Science
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	416
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Beth Dawson, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL

Robert G. Trapp, MD, Springfield, IL

Table of Contents

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