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Evidence-Based Diagnosis (Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
052188652X, 9780521886529, 0521714028, 9780521714020
LCC
RC71.3 .N49 2009
Open Library ID
OL22653258M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2566408 bytes)
Series
Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Edition
1
Pages
311\311
Time added
2010-08-30 15:18:36

Description

This book should be on every clinical researcher's bookshelf. By the time I reached page 40 of the library copy, I knew I had to have my old to underline, make notes and insert flags. Already I had found one of the clearest explanations of problems with assessing agreement that elude so many researchers. What followed were more clear, easy-to-follow explanations of many complicated, difficult-to-understand Issues such as the meaning and use of p-values and confidence intervals. There is even a section on how to construct clinical decision rules. Within a week of reading this book, I found occasion to refer putative authors to it for the only detailed explanation I had seen of a statistical procedure (Bland-Altman plots) they had performed but did not undersand how to use. Other occasions for use arise every day.

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