Statistics workbook for evidence-based health care

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. INDICE: Chapter 1: types of study designs. Chapter 2: Tests of significance and confidence intervals. Chapter 3: Incidence and prevalence. Chapter 4: Comparing proportions. Chapter 5: Odds ratio and relative risk. Chapter 6: Comparing mean values. Chapter 7: Paired and one sample tests. Chapter 8: Correlation and regression. Chapter 9: Statistics for clinical trials. Chapter 10 Survival tests. Chapter 11 Diagnostic tests. Chapter 12 Tests of agreement.

• ISBN: 978-1-4051-4644-9
• Editorial: Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 182
• Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés