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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... 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 Numbers Frederick 375 SECTION V REVIEWS 357 Medical Uses of ...
... 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 Numbers Frederick 375 SECTION V REVIEWS 357 Medical Uses of ...
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... Randomized Control Trials: An Update of the Quality and Methodology Henry S. Sacks, Jayne Berrier, Dinah Reitman, Daniel Pagano, and Thomas C. Chalmers 427 INDEX 445 John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Contents.
... Randomized Control Trials: An Update of the Quality and Methodology Henry S. Sacks, Jayne Berrier, Dinah Reitman, Daniel Pagano, and Thomas C. Chalmers 427 INDEX 445 John C. Bailar III, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Contents.
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... randomized clinical trials published in four leading general medical journals. Of 11 simple, important aspects of statistical design and analysis in each of these papers, only about 56 percent were clearly reported. A second problem ...
... randomized clinical trials published in four leading general medical journals. Of 11 simple, important aspects of statistical design and analysis in each of these papers, only about 56 percent were clearly reported. A second problem ...
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... Randomized Control Trials), completely revised and based on new data. This article emphasizes some of the methods being used and gives the reader some notions of the quality-scoring used to appraise progress in clinical investigations ...
... Randomized Control Trials), completely revised and based on new data. This article emphasizes some of the methods being used and gives the reader some notions of the quality-scoring used to appraise progress in clinical investigations ...
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... randomized double-blind placebo-controlled experiment, definitively demonstrated protection by the vaccine, which cut the polio rate by a factor of about 2.5. That effect, much smaller than a factor of 10, was established once and for ...
... randomized double-blind placebo-controlled experiment, definitively demonstrated protection by the vaccine, which cut the polio rate by a factor of about 2.5. That effect, much smaller than a factor of 10, was established once and for ...
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