Basic & Clinical Biostatistics 4/E (EBOOK), 4th Edition

ISBN10: 0071781323 | ISBN13: 9780071781329

By Robert Trapp and Beth Dawson

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The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care

First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics

Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.

Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
NEW chapter on survey research
Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information
Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
Downloadable NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
End-of-chapter exercises
Multiple-choice final practice exam

1. Introduction to Medical Research

2. Study Designs in Medical Research

3. Summarizing Data & Presenting Data in Tables and Graphs

4. Probability & Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data

5. Research Questions about One Group

6. Research Questions about Two Separate or Independent Groups

7. Research Questions about Means in Three or More Groups

8. Research Questions about Relationships among Variables

9. Analyzing Research Questions about Survival

10. Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables

11. Survey Research

12. Methods of Evidence-Based Medicine & Decision Analysis

13. Reading the Medical Literature

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Answers to Exercises

Appendix C: Flowcharts

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About the Author

Robert Trapp

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Beth Dawson