Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy

Name: Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy
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ISBN: 9780763772659

ISBN-10: 0763772658

ISBN-13: 9780763772659

Edition: 2nd 2009 (Revised)

Authors: Michael Harris, Gordon Taylor

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Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy provides health professionals and students with easy-to-understand explanations of key statistical techniques used in medical literature. In a concise and user-friendly format, readers will grasp firm knowledge of medical statistics, including confidence intervals and probability values, numbers needed to treat, t tests and other parametric tests, survival analysis, and more. Highlighted examples, exam tips, and items of difficulty make this an ideal primer for all medical and health-related students and professionals. Contents include: Statistics which describe data Statistics which test confidence Statistics which test differences Statistics…

Book details

List price: $70.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date: 1/14/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 115
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Gordon Taylor is a principal of Landscape Design Limited in London. He has designed gardens throughout Great Britain and Europe. He is the author of two previous Monacelli titles.



Abbreviations


Preface


About the authors


Foreword


How to use this book


How this book is designed


Statistics that describe data


Percentages


Mean


Median


Mode


Standard deviation


Statistics that test confidence


Confidence intervals


P values


Statistics that test differences


t tests and other parametric tests


Mann-Whitney and other nonparametric tests


Chi-squared test


Statistics that compare risk


Risk ratio


Odds ratio


Risk reduction and numbers needed to treat


Statistics that analyze relationships


Correlation


Regression


Statistics that analyze survival


Survival analysis: life tables and Kaplan-Meier plots


The Cox regression model


Statistics that analyze clinical investigations and screening


Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value


Level of agreement and Kappa


Other concepts


Statistics at Work


Standard deviation, relative risk, and numbers needed to treat


Odds ratios and confidence intervals


Correlation and regression


Survival analysis


Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values


Glossary


Index