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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... subjects is broader and the overall treatment more comprehensive. Every effort has been made to achieve a readable and interesting text that explains the important ideas behind current medical uses of statistics without burdening the ...
... subjects is broader and the overall treatment more comprehensive. Every effort has been made to achieve a readable and interesting text that explains the important ideas behind current medical uses of statistics without burdening the ...
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... subjects, drawn from the insights gained during their survey of actual practice. All together, more than 30 papers have come from this project so far. Some have appeared in the Journal as part of our “Statistics in Practice” series. A ...
... subjects, drawn from the insights gained during their survey of actual practice. All together, more than 30 papers have come from this project so far. Some have appeared in the Journal as part of our “Statistics in Practice” series. A ...
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... subjects in an investigation will have experienced the key event such as death or stroke by the time the analysis must be made. The widely used KaplanMeier method of estimating survival distributions and the Cox proportional-hazards ...
... subjects in an investigation will have experienced the key event such as death or stroke by the time the analysis must be made. The widely used KaplanMeier method of estimating survival distributions and the Cox proportional-hazards ...
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... subjects of certain kinds, observes and perhaps compares outcomes, and then tries to reach conclusions about the effects of the treatments. The specific meaning of such a study grows out of the answers to a host of questions about the ...
... subjects of certain kinds, observes and perhaps compares outcomes, and then tries to reach conclusions about the effects of the treatments. The specific meaning of such a study grows out of the answers to a host of questions about the ...
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... subject, the person who measures, and the device used. It is important to know how a measurement was made and whether the same method was used for all subjects. An often useful way to dispel ambiguity about the measurement of some ...
... subject, the person who measures, and the device used. It is important to know how a measurement was made and whether the same method was used for all subjects. An often useful way to dispel ambiguity about the measurement of some ...
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