Biostatistics

The Bare Essentials

Geoffrey R. Norman, David L. Streiner (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

438 Seiten

2014 | 4th Revised edition
PMPH-USA Limited (Verlag)
978-1-60795-178-0 (ISBN)

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This new edition of Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials continues the tradition of translating biostatistics in the health sciences literature with clarity and irreverence. Students and practitioners alike applaud Biostatistics as a practical guide that exposes them to every statistical test they are likely to encounter, with careful conceptual explanations and a minimum of algebra.

What's New?

The previous edition of The Bare Essentials presented hierarchical linear modeling, which first appeared in psychology journals and has only recently been described in the medical literature. The 3rd edition also introduced a chapter on testing for equivalence and non-inferiority as well as a chapter with information for getting started with the computer statistics program SPSS.

A very positive review of the 3rd edition of the book by Dr. Naomi Vaisrub appeared in JAMA which praised the book but recommended covering topics in epidemiology, so in the 4th edition the authors took her up on it. They've also included an entirely new chapter, called "Measures of Impact," in which they discuss measures of incidence and prevalence, risk, morbidity and fatality rates, and the number needed to treat. They also delve into the Poisson distribution for doing regressions on count data. Likewise, the reader will find new sections on robust estimators of the mean, the problems of multiple hypothesis testing, bootstrapping and resampling, as well as an expanded section on nonparametric stats.

Free of calculations and jargon, The Bare Essentials speaks so plainly that you won't need a technical dictionary. The focus is on the concepts, not the math. The objective is to enable you to determine whether the research results are applicable to your own patients.

Throughout, you'll find highlights of areas in which researchers misuse or misinterpret statistical tests. The authors have labeled these "C.R.A.P. Detectors" (Convoluted Reasoning and Anti-Intellectual Pomposity), and they help you identify faulty methodology and misuse of statistics.

Geoffrey Norman, PhD, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. David L. Streiner, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry University of Toronto. Professor Emeritus, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Section the First: The Nature of Data and Statistics
1. The Basics
2. Looking at the Data: A First look at Graphing Data
3. Describing the Data with Numbers: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Probability
6. Elements of Statistical Inference
Section the Second: Analysis of Variance
7. Comparing Two Groups: The t-Test
8. More than Two Groups: One-Way ANOVA
9. Factorial ANOVA
10. Two Repeated Observations: The Paired t-Test and Alternatives
11. Repeated-Measures ANOVA
12. Multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA)
Section the Third: Regression and Correlation
13. Simple Regression and Correlation
14. Multiple Regression
15. Logistic Regression
16. Advanced Topics in Regression and ANOVA
17. Measuring Change
18. Analysis of Longitudinal Data: Hierarchical Linear Models
19. Principal Components and Factor Analysis: Fooling Around with Factors
20. Path Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling
Section the Fourth: Nonparametric Statistics
21. Tests of Significance for Categorical Frequency Data
22. Measures of Association for Categorical Data
23. Tests of Significance for Ranked Data
24. Measures of Association for Ranked Data
25. Life-Table (Survival) Analysis
26. Measures of Impact
Section the Fifth: Reprise
27. Equivalence and Non-Inferiority Testing
28. Screwups, Oddballs, and other Vagaries of Science Locating Outliers, Handling Missing Data, and Transformations
29. Putting It All Together
30. Getting Started with SPSS
Test Yourself (Being a Compendium of Questions and Answers)
Answers to Chapter Exercises
References and Further Reading
Unabashed Glossary
Appendices
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.7.2014
Verlagsort	Shelton
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Notfallmedizin
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10	1-60795-178-9 / 1607951789
ISBN-13	978-1-60795-178-0 / 9781607951780
Zustand	Neuware