Mitchell H Katz

Multivariable Analysis

A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The third edition of this highly successful text enables clinical researchers to set up, perform and interpret multivariable models.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3rd Tion edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 193mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780521760980
• ISBN-10: 0521760984
• Artikelnr.: 32555270

Autorenporträt

Mitchell H. Katz is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco, Attending Physician at the San Francisco General Hospital, and Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction
2. Common uses of multivariable models
3. Outcome variables in multivariable analysis
4. Type of independent variables in multivariable analysis
5. Assumptions of multiple linear regression, multiple logistic regression, and proportional hazards analysis
6. Relationship of independent variables to one another
7. Setting up a multivariable analysis
8. Performing the analysis
9. Interpreting the analysis
10. Checking the assumptions of the analysis
11. Propensity scores
12. Correlated observations
13. Validation of models
14. Special topics
15. Publishing your study
16. Summary: steps for constructing a multivariable model
Index.