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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... procedures or diagnoses should be independently verified. The reader is strongly urged to consult the relevant national drug formulary and the drug companies' and device or material manufacturers' printed instructions, and their ...
... procedures or diagnoses should be independently verified. The reader is strongly urged to consult the relevant national drug formulary and the drug companies' and device or material manufacturers' printed instructions, and their ...
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... procedures were used in the Journal during a two-year period. A brief follow-up notes new emphasis on some procedures. Once the big ideas of statistics are well in mind, one needs to know xxiii INTRODUCTION Introduction.
... procedures were used in the Journal during a two-year period. A brief follow-up notes new emphasis on some procedures. Once the big ideas of statistics are well in mind, one needs to know xxiii INTRODUCTION Introduction.
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... procedures should be brought into the medical system. Often the reader of the literature must assemble information about a particular topic from many papers. This assembly must go beyond the methods of the usual review of the literature ...
... procedures should be brought into the medical system. Often the reader of the literature must assemble information about a particular topic from many papers. This assembly must go beyond the methods of the usual review of the literature ...
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... procedures; the infinite-data case, a way of considering what conclusions might be reached if the study were so large that statistical variation was negligible; probabilistic thinking, which focuses on the resemblance to be expected ...
... procedures; the infinite-data case, a way of considering what conclusions might be reached if the study were so large that statistical variation was negligible; probabilistic thinking, which focuses on the resemblance to be expected ...
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... procedures used in the study, and they must be precise and specific. DESCRIPTION OF TERMS Reports of laboratory investigations typically include specific accounts of equipment, procedures, and materials. An operational account of a ...
... procedures used in the study, and they must be precise and specific. DESCRIPTION OF TERMS Reports of laboratory investigations typically include specific accounts of equipment, procedures, and materials. An operational account of a ...
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