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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... expected between the study's outcome and what an infinitely large study would show; and induction, the process of reaching conclusions about future cases on the basis of the data in the present study. The design of an investigation ...
... expected between the study's outcome and what an infinitely large study would show; and induction, the process of reaching conclusions about future cases on the basis of the data in the present study. The design of an investigation ...
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... expected to be used in a clinical trial, this question should arise before the study begins: What could unlimited data about the responses of healthy 25-year-olds tell us about the incidence of, say, nausea and vomiting in 70-year-old ...
... expected to be used in a clinical trial, this question should arise before the study begins: What could unlimited data about the responses of healthy 25-year-olds tell us about the incidence of, say, nausea and vomiting in 70-year-old ...
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... expected to benefit more from treatment I than from treatment II, that should bar their being assigned to treatment II. (Thus, the initial “suitable group should consist of patients for whom both treatments are equally appropriate ...
... expected to benefit more from treatment I than from treatment II, that should bar their being assigned to treatment II. (Thus, the initial “suitable group should consist of patients for whom both treatments are equally appropriate ...
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