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Basic Statistics and Epidemiology : A Practical Guide, Fourth Edition.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 4th edDescription: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498783545
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 610.15195
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Contents:
Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface to fourth edition -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: What are statistics? -- Chapter 2: Populations and samples -- Chapter 3: Random sampling -- Chapter 4: Presenting data -- Chapter 5: Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Chapter 6: Types of data -- Chapter 7: Mean, median and mode -- Chapter 8: Centiles -- Chapter 9: Standard deviation -- Chapter 10: Standard error -- Chapter 11: Normal distribution -- Chapter 12: Confidence intervals -- Chapter 13: Probability -- Chapter 14: Hypothesis tests and P-values -- Chapter 15: The t-tests -- Chapter 16: Data checking -- Chapter 17: Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Chapter 18: Correlation and linear regression -- Chapter 19: Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chapter 20: Chi-squared test -- Chapter 21: Statistical power and sample size -- Chapter 22: Effect size -- Chapter 23: What is epidemiology? -- Chapter 24: Bias and confounding -- Chapter 25: Measuring disease frequency -- Chapter 26: Measuring association in epidemiology -- Chapter 27: Prevalence studies -- Chapter 28: Questionnaires -- Chapter 29: Cohort studies -- Chapter 30: Case-control studies -- Chapter 31: Randomised controlled trials -- Chapter 32: Screening -- Chapter 33: Evidence-based healthcare -- Glossary of terms -- Appendix 1: Statistical tables -- Appendix 2: Exercises -- Appendix 3: Answers to exercises -- References -- Further reading: a selection -- Back Cover.
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Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface to fourth edition -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: What are statistics? -- Chapter 2: Populations and samples -- Chapter 3: Random sampling -- Chapter 4: Presenting data -- Chapter 5: Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Chapter 6: Types of data -- Chapter 7: Mean, median and mode -- Chapter 8: Centiles -- Chapter 9: Standard deviation -- Chapter 10: Standard error -- Chapter 11: Normal distribution -- Chapter 12: Confidence intervals -- Chapter 13: Probability -- Chapter 14: Hypothesis tests and P-values -- Chapter 15: The t-tests -- Chapter 16: Data checking -- Chapter 17: Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Chapter 18: Correlation and linear regression -- Chapter 19: Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chapter 20: Chi-squared test -- Chapter 21: Statistical power and sample size -- Chapter 22: Effect size -- Chapter 23: What is epidemiology? -- Chapter 24: Bias and confounding -- Chapter 25: Measuring disease frequency -- Chapter 26: Measuring association in epidemiology -- Chapter 27: Prevalence studies -- Chapter 28: Questionnaires -- Chapter 29: Cohort studies -- Chapter 30: Case-control studies -- Chapter 31: Randomised controlled trials -- Chapter 32: Screening -- Chapter 33: Evidence-based healthcare -- Glossary of terms -- Appendix 1: Statistical tables -- Appendix 2: Exercises -- Appendix 3: Answers to exercises -- References -- Further reading: a selection -- Back Cover.

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