Intuitive Biostatistics : A Nonmathematical Guide to Statistical Thinking
ISBN: 9780199730063 | 0199730067
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/20/2010
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Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of Intuitive Biostatistics retains and refines the core perspectives of the previous edition: a focus on how to interpret statistical results rather than on how to analyze data, minimal use of equations, and a detailed review of assumptions and common mistakes. Intuitive Biostatistics, Completely Revised Second Edition, provides a clear introduction to statistics for undergraduate and graduate students and also serves as a statistics refresher for working scientists. NEW TO THIS EDITION: * Chap... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introducing Statistics | |
| Statistics and Probability Are Not Intuitive | |
| Why Statistics Can Be Hard to Learn | |
| From Sample to Population | |
| Confidence Intervals | |
| Confidence Interval of a Proportion | |
| Confidence Interval of Survival Data | |
| Confidence Interval of Counted Data | |
| Continuous Variables | ... MORE |
| Graphing Continuous Data | |
| Types of Variables | |
| Quantifying Scatter | |
| The Gaussian Distribution | |
| The Lognormal Distribution and Geometric Mean | |
| Confidence Interval of a Mean | |
| The Theory of Confidence Intervals | |
| Error Bars | |
| P Values And Significance | |
| Introducing P Values | |
| Statistical Significance and Hypothesis Testing | |
| Relationship Between Confidence Intervals and Statistical Significance | |
| Interpreting a Result That is Statistically Significant | |
| Interpreting a Result That Is Not Statistically Significant | |
| Statistical Power | |
| Testing For Equivalence or Noninferiority | |
| Challenges In Statistics | |
| Multiple Comparisons Concepts | |
| Multiple Comparison Traps | |
| Gaussian or Not? | |
| Outliers | |
| Statistical Tests | |
| Comparing Observed and Expected Distributions | |
| Comparing Proportions: Prospective and Experimental Studies | |
| Comparing Proportions: Case-Control Studies | |
| Comparing Survival Curves | |
| Comparing Two Means: Unpaired t test | |
| Comparing Two Paired Groups | |
| Correlation | |
| Fitting Models To Data | |
| Simple Linear Regression | |
| Models | |
| Comparing Models | |
| Nonlinear Regression | |
| Multiple, Logistic, and Proportional Hazards Regression | |
| Multiple Regression Traps | |
| The Rest Of Statistics | |
| Analysis of Variance | |
| Multiple Comparison Tests After ANOVA | |
| Nonparametric Methods | |
| Sensitivity Specificity and Receiver-Operator Characteristic Curves | |
| Sample Size | |
| Putting It All Together | |
| Statistical Advice | |
| Choosing a Statistical Test | |
| Capstone Example | |
| Review Problems | |
| Answers to Review Problems | |
| AppendiceS | |
| Statistics with GraphPad | |
| Statistics With Excel | |
| Statistics R | |
| Values of the t Distribution Needed to Compute CIs | |
| A Review of Logarithms | |
| References | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Previously held faculty position in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California San Diego. Currently, founder of GraphPad Software, Inc.
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