TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bowers,David
TI  - Medical statistics from scratch: an introduction for health care professionals 
SN  - 9781118519387 (pbk.)
AV  - RA409 
U1  - 610.72/7 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex, UK, Hoboken, NJ
PB  - John Wiley & Sons Inc.
KW  - Biometry
KW  - Statistics as Topic
KW  - methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; First things first? : the nature of data -- Describing data with tables -- Describing data with charts -- Describing data from its shape -- Describing data with measures of location -- Describing data with measures of spread --  Confounding? : like poor(nearly) always with us -- Research design part I observational -- Research design part II experimental studies -- Getting the participants for your study. ways of sampling -- Chance would be a fine thing? : the idea of probability -- Risk and odds -- Estimating the value of a single population parameter? : the idea of confidence intervals -- Using confidence intervals to compare two population parameters -- Confidence intervals for the ratio of two population parameters -- Testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters -- The chi-squared test? : what, why, and how? -- Testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters -- Measuring the association between two variables -- Measuring agreement -- Straight line models : linear regression -- Curvy models : logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Diagnostic testing
ER  -