Title Introductory medical statistics / Richard F. Mould

Edition Third edition Published Bristol, England ; Philadelphia : Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998

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Description xviii, 403 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Series Medical science series Medical science series. Contents 1. Data Presentation -- 2. Describing Curves and Distributions -- 3. The Normal Distribution Curve -- 4. Introduction to Sampling, Errors, Accuracy and Precision -- 5. Introduction to Probability -- 6. Binomial Probabilities -- 7. Poisson Probabilities -- 8. Introduction to Statistical Significance -- 9. The Chi-squared Test -- 10. The Fisher Exact Probability Test -- 11. The t-test -- 12. Difference Between Proportions for Independent and for Non-independent (McNemar's Test for Paired Proportions) Samples -- 13. Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney and Sign Tests -- 14. Survival Rate Calculations -- 15. The Logrank and Mantel-Haenszel Tests -- 16. Regression and Correlation -- 17. Analysis of Variance -- 18. Multivariate Analysis: The Cox Proportional Hazards Model -- 19. Sensitivity and Specificity -- 20. Clinical Trials -- 21. Cancer Treatment Success, Cure and Quality of Life -- 22. Risk Specification with Emphasis on Ionising Radiation 23. Types of Epidemiological Study: Case-control, Cohort and Cross-sectional -- Glossary of Rates and Ratios: Terminology in Vital Statistics Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-377) and index Notes Also available online Subject Medical statistics. Medicine -- Research -- Statistical methods. Statistics. LC no. 98176710 ISBN 0750305134

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