Basic & Clinical Biostatistics

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The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care First choice of students, educators, and practitioners A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields. Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods NEW chapter on survey research Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods Downloadable NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems End-of-chapter exercises Multiple-choice final practice exam Contents 1 Introduction to Medical Research 1 2 Study Designs in Medical Research 7 3 Summarizing Data Presenting Data in Tables Graphs 23 4 Probability Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data 61 5 Research Questions About One Group 93 6 Research Questions About Two Separate or Independent Groups 134 7 Research Questions About Means in Three or More Groups 162 8 Research Questions About Relationships Among Variables 190 11 Survey Research 280 12 Methods of EvidenceBased Medicine and Decision Analysis 302 13 Reading the Medical Literature 332 Tables 362 Answers to Exercises 372 Flowcharts for Relating Research Questions to Statistical Methods 398 Glossary 403 References 415 9 Analyzing Research Questions About Survival 221 10 Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables 245 Index 423 Copyright