Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health SciencesProvides students and practitioners with a clear, conciseintroduction to the statistics they will come across in theirregular reading of clinical papers. Written by three experts with wide teaching and consultingexperience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the HealthSciences, Fourth Edition:
From the reviews of the previous edition: "The book has several excellent features: it is written bystatisticians, is.... well presented, is well referenced.... and isshort." THE LANCET "Many statisticians are concerned at the generally poorstandard of statistics in papers published in medical journals.Perhaps this could be remedied if more research workers would sparea few hours to read through Campbell and Machin's book."BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL "... a simple, interesting and insightful introduction tomedical statistics... highlyrecommended." STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICALRESEARCH "Campbell and Machin found the golden mean... this book canbe recommended for all students and all medicalresearchers." ISCB NEWSLETTER |
Contents
A Textbook for the Health Science 1 Uses and abuses of medical statistics | 1 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 2 Describing and displaying categorical data | 13 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 3 Describing and displaying quantitative data | 27 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 4 Probability and decision making | 45 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 5 Distributions | 63 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 6 Populations samples standard errors and confidence intervals | 79 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 7 pvalues and statistical inference | 99 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 8 Tests for comparing two groups of categorical or continuous data | 117 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 11 Reliability and method comparison studies | 201 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 12 Observational studies | 217 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 13 The randomised controlled trial | 241 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 14 Sample size issues | 261 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 15 Common pitfalls | 277 |
A Textbook for the Health Science References | 291 |
A Textbook for the Health Science Solutions to exercises | 297 |
A Textbook for the Health Science Statistical tables | 315 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 9 Correlation and linear regression | 149 |
A Textbook for the Health Science 10 Survival analysis | 181 |
Common terms and phrases
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