Understanding biostatistics

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"Understanding Biostatistics looks at the fundamentals of biostatistics, using elementary statistics and explores the nature of statistical tests, the tests that produces the p-values and basic aspects of clinical trials. The concept of distribution functions are discussed, including the Guassian distribution and its importance in biostatistics. The book also looks at problems of estimating parameters in statistical models and looks at the similarities between different models. The author does …

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Full title :Understanding biostatistics / Anders Källén.

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Publication Date:2011.

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Publisher(s):Wiley
Place of Publication:Chichester, West Sussex, Angleterre
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

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Description:1 ressource en ligne (xii, 375 p.) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781119992684, 1119992680, 9781119992677, 1119992672, 9781119993506, 1119993504, 9781119993513, 1119993512
oclc:ocn812941941
LC Classification:QH323.5
Dewey Decimal:570.1/5195

Statistics and medical science -- Observational studies and the need for clinical trials -- Study design and the bias issue -- The anatomy of a statistical test -- Learning about parameters, and some notes on planning -- Empirical distribution functions -- Correlation and regression in bivariate distributions -- How to compare the outcome in two groups -- Least squares, linear models and beyond -- Analysis of dose response -- Hazards and censored data -- From the log-rank test to the Cox proportional hazards model -- Remarks on some estimation methods.