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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... patient's medical history, relevant manufacturer's instructions and the appropriate best practice guidelines. Because of the ... patients appropriately. The authors and publishers have also attempted to trace the copyright holders of all ...
... patient's medical history, relevant manufacturer's instructions and the appropriate best practice guidelines. Because of the ... patients appropriately. The authors and publishers have also attempted to trace the copyright holders of all ...
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... patients younger than 55, by considering patients from community hospitals as well as teaching hospitals, or without excluding patients with diabetes), how closely might the data from 6 l Statistical Concepts.
... patients younger than 55, by considering patients from community hospitals as well as teaching hospitals, or without excluding patients with diabetes), how closely might the data from 6 l Statistical Concepts.
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... patients have “disease A, Stages II and III” sounds definite enough, but the diagnosis of disease A may be somewhat tricky. We need to know how that diagnosis was made. What criteria were applied? How were the patients assessed? Were ...
... patients have “disease A, Stages II and III” sounds definite enough, but the diagnosis of disease A may be somewhat tricky. We need to know how that diagnosis was made. What criteria were applied? How were the patients assessed? Were ...
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... patients, and the Mini Mental State Examination for cognitive function in the elderly. Treatments are often not what investigators believe and intend them to be, and careful operational definition can require subtle distinctions. Drug A ...
... patients, and the Mini Mental State Examination for cognitive function in the elderly. Treatments are often not what investigators believe and intend them to be, and careful operational definition can require subtle distinctions. Drug A ...
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... patients, and if younger subjects are 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 ...
... patients, and if younger subjects are 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 ...
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