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The goal of this book is to help you better understand health information by teaching you about the numbers behind the messages--the medical statistics on which the claims are based. The book will also familiarize you with risk charts, which are designed to help you put your hea…
This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel's first experiments to genome-wide association studies, the book describes how genetic informa…
This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel's first experiments to genome-wide association studies, the book describes how genetic informa…
Uses and abuses of medical statistics -- Describing and displaying categorical data -- Describing and displaying quantitative data -- Probability and decision making -- Distributions -- Populations, samples, standard errors and confidence intervals -- p-values and statistical in…
Provides students and practitioners with a clear, concise introduction to the statistics they will come across in their regular reading of clinical papers. Written by three experts with wide teaching and consulting experience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Scienc…
Provides students and practitioners with a clear, concise introduction to the statistics they will come across in their regular reading of clinical papers. Written by three experts with wide teaching and consulting experience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Scienc…
This book covers the kinds of statistics students and practitioners will encounter in their regular reading of clinical papers. It assumes no prior knowledge of statistics, covers all essential statistical methods, and includes numerous examples and exercises on the interpretati…
Consists of contributions that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics discussed include models based on Markov and semi-Markov processes, multi-…
"The approach taken in this book is, to studies monitored over time, what the Central Limit Theorem is to studies with only one analysis. Just as the Central Limit Theorem shows that test statistics involving very different types of clinical trial outcomes are asymptotically nor…
Presents a comprehensive review of the factors that determine when a clinical trial should be stopped.