Medical Uses of StatisticsJohn C. Bailar III, Frederick Mosteller CRC Press, 2019 M05 20 - 480 pages This work explains the purpose of statistical methods in medical studies and analyzes the statistical techniques used by clinical investigators, with special emphasis on studies published in "The New England Journal of Medicine". It clarifies fundamental concepts of statistical design and analysis, and facilitates the understanding of research results. |
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... errors or omissions that may be made. The publishers wish to make clear that any views or opinions expressed in this book by individual editors, authors or contributors are personal to them and do not necessarily reflect the views ...
... errors or omissions that may be made. The publishers wish to make clear that any views or opinions expressed in this book by individual editors, authors or contributors are personal to them and do not necessarily reflect the views ...
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... Error, and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Controlled Trial: Survey of Two Sets of “Negative” Trials Jennie A. Freiman, Thomas C. Chalmers, Harry Smith, Jr., and Roy R. Kuebler Chapter 20 Writing about ...
... Error, and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Controlled Trial: Survey of Two Sets of “Negative” Trials Jennie A. Freiman, Thomas C. Chalmers, Harry Smith, Jr., and Roy R. Kuebler Chapter 20 Writing about ...
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... errors in critical assumptions about relative magnitudes, and uncertainty about generalizing results in complicated situations, such as moving from data acquired from animal experiments to future human experience. The next chapter ...
... errors in critical assumptions about relative magnitudes, and uncertainty about generalizing results in complicated situations, such as moving from data acquired from animal experiments to future human experience. The next chapter ...
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... errors. The authors have communicated with the key workers in computer software and believe these problems have been corrected. The increased use of survival analysis in the clinical literature has caused us to add a discussion of the ...
... errors. The authors have communicated with the key workers in computer software and believe these problems have been corrected. The increased use of survival analysis in the clinical literature has caused us to add a discussion of the ...
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... error. We can think of bias as a numerical discrepancy between the mean of some statistic from our intended infinitedata case and the mean for our actual infinite-data case. Of course, no one intends to use an instrument that gives ...
... error. We can think of bias as a numerical discrepancy between the mean of some statistic from our intended infinitedata case and the mean for our actual infinite-data case. Of course, no one intends to use an instrument that gives ...
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