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Basic statistics and epidemiology : a practical guide / Antony Stewart, FFPH, Professor in Public Health at Staffordshire University, Honorary Consultant in Public Health at Public Health England, Clinical Research Speciality Lead for the Public Health at NIHR, Clinical Research Network, West Midlands and Academic Director of the Centre for Health and Development (CHAD), UK

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]Edition: Fourth editionDescription: viii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781785231162
  • 1-78523-116-2
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4 23
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Contents:
What are statistics? -- Populations and samples -- Random sampling -- Presenting data -- Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Types of data -- Mean, median and mode -- Centiles -- Standard deviation -- Standard error -- Normal distribution -- Confidence intervals -- Probability -- Hypothesis tests and P-values -- The t-tests -- Data checking -- Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Correlation and linear regression -- Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chi-squared test -- Statistical power and samples size -- Effect size -- What is epidemiology? -- Bias and confounding -- Measuring disease frequncey -- Measuring association in epidemiology -- Prevalence studies -- Questionnaires -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Randomised controlled trials -- Screening -- Evidence-based healthcare
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Includes bibliographical references and index

What are statistics? -- Populations and samples -- Random sampling -- Presenting data -- Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Types of data -- Mean, median and mode -- Centiles -- Standard deviation -- Standard error -- Normal distribution -- Confidence intervals -- Probability -- Hypothesis tests and P-values -- The t-tests -- Data checking -- Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Correlation and linear regression -- Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chi-squared test -- Statistical power and samples size -- Effect size -- What is epidemiology? -- Bias and confounding -- Measuring disease frequncey -- Measuring association in epidemiology -- Prevalence studies -- Questionnaires -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Randomised controlled trials -- Screening -- Evidence-based healthcare