Jennifer Peat, Belinda Barton

Statistics Workbook for Evidence-Based Health Care

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Evidence-Based Medicine
• Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781405146449
• ISBN-10: 1405146443
• Artikelnr.: 22956352

Autorenporträt

Jennifer Peat is Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health and Senior Hospital Statistician, Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW Australia Belinda Barton also from the Children's Hospital at Westmead is Head of the Education Research Institute and Psychologist in the Neurogenetics Research Unit Professor Elizabeth Elliott, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney, The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Inhaltsangabe

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.