Medical uses of statistics /
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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| Imprint: | Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2009. |
| Description: | xxix, 491 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7788779 |
Table of Contents:
- Contributors
- Preface
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments
- Origins of Chapters
- Introduction
- Section I. Broad Concepts And Analytic Techniques.
- Chapter 1. Statistical Concepts Fundamental to Investigations
- Chapter 2. Some Uses of Statistical Thinking
- Chapter 3. Use of Statistical Analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine
- Section II. Design.
- Chapter 4. Randomized Trials and Other Parallel Comparisons of Treatment
- Chapter 5. Crossover and Self-Controlled Designs in Clinical Research
- Chapter 6. The Series of Consecutive Cases as a Device for Assessing Outcomes of Interventions
- Chapter 7. Biostatistics in Epidemiology: Design and Basic Analysis
- Section III. Analysis.
- Chapter 8. P-values
- Chapter 9. Understanding Analyses of Randomized Trials
- Chapter 10. Linear Regression in Medical Research
- Chapter 11. Statistical Analysis of Survival Data
- Chapter 12. Analysis of Categorical Data in Medical Studies
- Chapter 13. Analyzing Data from Ordered Categories
- Section IV. Communicating Results.
- Chapter 14. Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles for Medical Journals
- Chapter 15. Reporting of Subgroup Analyses in Clinical Trials
- Chapter 16. Writing about Numbers
- Section V. Specialized Methods.
- Chapter 17. Combining Results from Independent Studies: Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research
- Chapter 18. Biostatistics in Epidemiology: Advanced Methods of Regression Analysis
- Chapter 19. Genetic Inference
- Chapter 20. Identifying Disease Genes in Association Studies
- Chapter 21. Risk Assessment
- Index
