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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... usually be defined in the as a body of methods for learning from expeform of numbers from many separate measurements showing individual variations. But because many qualitative matters of clinical interest, such as alive or dead ...
... usually be defined in the as a body of methods for learning from expeform of numbers from many separate measurements showing individual variations. But because many qualitative matters of clinical interest, such as alive or dead ...
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... usually find it valuable to consider what conclusions might be reached if the data set were infinitely large, so that statistical variation was negligible. In thinking about this infinite-data case, they pose these questions: If we had ...
... usually find it valuable to consider what conclusions might be reached if the data set were infinitely large, so that statistical variation was negligible. In thinking about this infinite-data case, they pose these questions: If we had ...
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... usually produce larger effects. A useful way to make this idea of a statistical relationship more amenable to quantitative treatment is the concept of regression. Think of two variables x (dose) and y (response). We define the ...
... usually produce larger effects. A useful way to make this idea of a statistical relationship more amenable to quantitative treatment is the concept of regression. Think of two variables x (dose) and y (response). We define the ...
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... (usually, fortunately, before the study begins). For this question to be answered, more detail is needed; it resembles the question, How much money should I take when I go on vacation? One needs to ask, How long a vacation? Where? With ...
... (usually, fortunately, before the study begins). For this question to be answered, more detail is needed; it resembles the question, How much money should I take when I go on vacation? One needs to ask, How long a vacation? Where? With ...
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