Basic & Clinical Biostatistics: Fifth Edition, 5th Edition

ISBN10: 126045536X | ISBN13: 9781260455366

By Susan White

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

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Basic & Clinical Biostatistics provides medical students, researchers, and practitioners with the knowledge needed to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care. This fifth edition has been updated throughout to deliver a comprehensive, timely introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology as applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research. Particular emphasis is on study design and interpretation of results of research.

The book features “Presenting Problems” drawn from studies published in the medical literature, end-of-chapter exercises, and a reorganization of content to reflect the way investigators ask research questions. To facilitate learning, each chapter contain a set of key concepts underscoring the important ideas discussed.

Features:

Key components include a chapter on survey research and expanded discussion
of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
Extensive examples illustrate statistical methods and design issues
Updated examples using R, an open source statistical software package
Expanded coverage of data visualization, including content on visual perception
and discussion of tools such as Tableau, Qlik and MS Power BI
Sampling and power calculations imbedded with discussion of the statistical model
Updated content, examples, and data sets throughout

Chapter 1. Introduction to Medical Research

Chapter 2. Study Designs in Medical Research

Chapter 3. Summarizing Data & PresentingData in Tables & Graphs

Chapter 4. Probability & Related Topicsfor Making Inferences About Data

Chapter 5. Research Questions About One Group

Chapter 6. Research Questions About TwoSeparate or Independent Groups

Chapter 7. Research Questions About Means inThree or More Groups

Chapter 8. Research Questions AboutRelationships among Variables

Chapter 9. Analyzing Research Questions AboutSurvival

Chapter 10. Statistical Methods for MultipleVariables

Chapter 11. Survey Research

Chapter 12. Methods of Evidence-Based Medicineand Decision Analysis

Chapter 13. Reading the Medical Literature

Appendix A: Tables

Appendix B: Answers to Exercises

Appendix C: Flowcharts for Relating ResearchQuestions to Statistical Methods

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