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Author Cleophas, Ton J. M.

Title Statistics applied to clinical studies / Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman ; with help from Toine F. Cleophas, Eugene P. Cleophas, and Henny I. Cleophas-Allers
Edition 5th ed
Published Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, ©2012
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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 743 pages)
Series 2012-2013 Springer E-Books - Biomedical & Life Sciences
Contents Hypotheses, Data, Stratification -- The Analysis of Efficacy Data -- The Analysis of Safety Data -- Log Likelihood Ratio Tests for Safety Data Analysis -- Equivalence Testing -- Statistical Power and Sample Size -- Interim Analyses -- Controlling the Risk of False Positive Clinical Trials -- Multiple Statistical Inferences -- The Interpretation of the p-Values -- Research Data Closer to Expectation than Compatible with Random Sampling -- Statistical Tables for Testing Data Closer to Expectation than Compatible with Random Sampling -- Data Dispersion Issues -- Linear Regression, Basic Approach -- Linear Regression for Assessing Precision, Confounding, Interaction, Basic Approach -- Curvilinear Regression -- Logistic and Cox Regression, Markov Models, Laplace Transformations -- Regression Modeling for Improved Precision -- Post-hoc Analyses in Clinical Trials, A Case for Logistic Regression Analysis -- Multistage Regression -- Categorical Data -- Missing Data -- Poisson Regression -- More on Non Linear Relationships, Splines -- Multivariate Analysis -- Bhattacharya Modeling -- Trend-Testing -- Confounding -- Propensity Score Matching -- Interaction -- Time-Dependent Factor Analysis -- Meta-analysis, Basic Approach -- Meta-analysis, Review and Update of Methodologies -- Meta-regression -- Crossover Studies with Continuous Variables -- Crossover Studies with Binary Responses -- Cross-Over Trials Should Not Be Used to Test Treatments with Different Chemical Class -- Quality-Of-Life Assessments in Clinical Trials -- Item Response Modeling -- Statistical Analysis of Genetic Data -- Relationship Among Statistical Distributions -- Testing Clinical Trials for Randomness -- Clinical Trials Do Not Use Random Samples Anymore -- Clinical Data Where Variability Is More Important Than Averages -- Testing Reproducibility -- Validating Qualitative Diagnostic Tests -- Uncertainty of Qualitative Diagnostic Tests -- Meta-Analysis of Qualitative Diagnostic Tests -- c-Statistic Versus Logistic Regression for Assessing the Performance of Qualitative Diagnostic Accuracy -- Validating Quantitative Diagnostic Tests -- Summary of Validation Procedures for Diagnostic Tests -- Validating Surrogate Endpoints of Clinical Trials -- Binary Partitioning -- Methods for Repeated Measures Analysis -- Mixed Linear Models for Repeated Measures -- Advanced Analysis of Variance, Random Effects and Mixed Effects Models -- Monte Carlo Methods for Data Analysis -- Artificial Intelligence -- Fuzzy Logic -- Physicians' Daily Life and the Scientific Method -- Incident Analysis and the Scientific Method -- Clinical Trials: Superiority-Testing -- Noninferiority Testing -- Time Series -- Odds Ratios and Multiple Regression Models, Why and How to Use Them -- Statistics Is No "Bloodless" Algebra -- Bias Due to Conflicts of Interests, Some Guidelines
Summary Thanks to the omnipresent computer, current statistics can include data files of many thousands of values, and can perform any exploratory analysis in less than seconds. This development, however fascinating, generally does not lead to simple results. We should not forget that clinical studies are, mostly, for confirming prior hypotheses based on sound arguments, and the simplest tests provide the best power and are adequate for such studies. In the past few years the authors of this 5th edition, as teachers and research supervisors in academic and top-clinical facilities, have been able to closely observe the latest developments in the field of clinical data analysis, and they have been able to assess their performance. In this 5th edition the 47 chapters of the previous edition have been maintained and upgraded according to the current state of the art, and 20 novel chapters have been added after strict selection of the most valuable and promising novel methods. The novel methods are explained using practical examples and step-by-step analyses readily accessible for non-mathematicians. All of the novel chapters have been internationally published by the authors in peer-reviewed journal, including the American Journal of Therapeutics, the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, The International journal of Clinical Pharmacology and therapeutics, and other journals, and permission is granted by all of them to use this material in the current book. We should add that the authors are well-qualified in their fields of knowledge. Professor Zwinderman is president-elect of the International Society of Biostatistics, and Professor Cleophas is past-president of the American College of Angiology. From their expertise they should be able to make adequate selections of modern methods for clinical data analysis for the benefit of physicians, students, and investigators. The authors, although from a different discipline, one clinician and one statistician, have been working and publishing together for over 10 years, and their research of statistical methodology can be characterized as a continued effort to demonstrate that statistics is not mathematics but rather a discipline at the interface of biology and mathematics. They firmly believe that any reader can benefit from this clinical approach to statistical data analysis
Analysis Medicine
Medical laboratories
Internal medicine
Statistics
Biomedicine
Laboratory Medicine
Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences
levenswetenschappen
life sciences
geneeskunde
toegepaste statistiek
applied statistics
biomedische wetenschappen
statistiek
Medicine (General)
Geneeskunde (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Clinical trials -- Statistical methods
Statistics.
Statistics as Topic
Clinical Trials as Topic
statistics.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Healing -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Alternative Therapies.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healing.
MEDICAL -- Healing.
Statistics
Clinical trials -- Statistical methods
Genre/Form dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Zwinderman, Aeilko H.
Cleophas, Toine F.
Cleophas, Eugene P
Cleophas-Allers, Henny I
ISBN 9789400728639
9400728638
940072862X
9789400728622
9781280395345
1280395346