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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... Regression in Medical Research Katherine Godfrey 201 Chapter 12 Comparing the Means of Several Groups Katherine Godfrey 233 Chapter 13 Analyzing Data from Ordered Categories Lincoln E. Moses, John D. Emerson, and Hossein Hosseini 259 ...
... Regression in Medical Research Katherine Godfrey 201 Chapter 12 Comparing the Means of Several Groups Katherine Godfrey 233 Chapter 13 Analyzing Data from Ordered Categories Lincoln E. Moses, John D. Emerson, and Hossein Hosseini 259 ...
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... regression (Chapter 11) and comparisons of several group means (Chapter 12). They make clear that investigators must have in mind ... regression, including multiple logistic regression, is introduced to extend the ideas Introduction xxv.
... regression (Chapter 11) and comparisons of several group means (Chapter 12). They make clear that investigators must have in mind ... regression, including multiple logistic regression, is introduced to extend the ideas Introduction xxv.
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John C. Bailar III, Frederick Mosteller. including multiple logistic regression, is introduced to extend the ideas of regression to situations where the outcome variable (a proportion) must lie in the range from 0 to 1. Once an ...
John C. Bailar III, Frederick Mosteller. including multiple logistic regression, is introduced to extend the ideas of regression to situations where the outcome variable (a proportion) must lie in the range from 0 to 1. Once an ...
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... REGRESSION Laws of physics such as Ohm's Law, Newton's Laws of Motion, and Einstein's famous E = me2 allow one to calculate exactly the value of one variable that must accompany the stated value of another. But in medicine and everyday ...
... REGRESSION Laws of physics such as Ohm's Law, Newton's Laws of Motion, and Einstein's famous E = me2 allow one to calculate exactly the value of one variable that must accompany the stated value of another. But in medicine and everyday ...
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... regression. Think of two variables x (dose) and y (response). We define the regression of y upon x to be the curve that depicts at each value of x (dose) the average value of y (response) for those elements of the population having that ...
... regression. Think of two variables x (dose) and y (response). We define the regression of y upon x to be the curve that depicts at each value of x (dose) the average value of y (response) for those elements of the population having that ...
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