Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Healthcare by Jennifer Peat - Belinda Barton - Elizabeth Elliott

A hands-on guide for individual and group exercises. It teaches students how to understand statistical methods when reading journals, and how to use them in clinical research. Top page

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"Evidence-based Statistical Workbook" is a brand new workbook, providing a hands-on guide for individual and group exercises, teaching students how to understand statistical methods when reading journals, and how to use them in clinical research. Emphasizing the use of statistics in evidence-based research, each chapter covers one aspect of the methods used in the journal examples provided to explain the principles, with a worked example, followed by a series of exercises. This book is an ideal resource for anyone needing to use statistics in their work and a perfect resource for medical students. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

City: Chicester

Pages: 192

More info: height 277 mm width 221 mm weight 630 gr thickness 13 mm

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Age recommended: Professional and scholarly

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey: 610.727 Library of Congress Subject: Evidence-based medicine - Statistical methods

Summary Statistics Workbook for Evidence-based Healthcare Contents.Foreword.By Virginia A. Moyer.Introduction.Overview.UNIT 1 Hypothesis testing and estimation.UNIT 2 Incidence and prevalence rates.UNIT 3 Comparing proportions.UNIT 4 Relative risk and odds ratio.UNIT 5 Clinical trials.UNIT 6 Comparing mean values.UNIT 7 Correlation and regression.UNIT 8 Follow-up studies.UNIT 9 Survival analyses.UNIT 10 Diagnostic and screening statistics.Answers.Glossary.Index Top page

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