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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Page xxiv
... give the reader an overview of the main methods of studying the effect of an intervention. Specialized methods that are not treated in the book, such as “balancing,” have been described by Shapiro and Louis1 and in more detail in the ...
... give the reader an overview of the main methods of studying the effect of an intervention. Specialized methods that are not treated in the book, such as “balancing,” have been described by Shapiro and Louis1 and in more detail in the ...
Page xxv
... gives some notion of the effect of ordered categories and explains a little about the general methods used to handle order. The authors of this chapter discovered during their study that some of the popular computer packages used to ...
... gives some notion of the effect of ordered categories and explains a little about the general methods used to handle order. The authors of this chapter discovered during their study that some of the popular computer packages used to ...
Page xxvi
... gives the investigator some general ideas about what to offer readers and what to keep in one's notebooks. The chapter expands on the brief statistical guidelines given as the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical ...
... gives the investigator some general ideas about what to offer readers and what to keep in one's notebooks. The chapter expands on the brief statistical guidelines given as the Uniform Requirements for Manuscripts Submitted to Biomedical ...
Page xxvii
... give some idea of the developments in the field we have also included Chapter 23 by Sacks et al. (Meta-Analyses of ... gives the reader some notions of the quality-scoring used to appraise progress in clinical investigations. Most ...
... give some idea of the developments in the field we have also included Chapter 23 by Sacks et al. (Meta-Analyses of ... gives the reader some notions of the quality-scoring used to appraise progress in clinical investigations. Most ...
Page 16
... gives readings four units too large, but if that happens, then the actual infinite-data case will incorporate this bias, and the sample data will approximate the biased figure. Bias may be the most difficult problem in quantitative ...
... gives readings four units too large, but if that happens, then the actual infinite-data case will incorporate this bias, and the sample data will approximate the biased figure. Bias may be the most difficult problem in quantitative ...
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