Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy

by Harris, Michael; Taylor, Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780763772659
• ISBN10: 0763772658
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-14
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Summary

Medical and Health Science Statistics Made Easy provides health professionals and students with easy-to-understand explanations of key statistical techniques used in medical literature. In a concise and user-friendly format, readers will grasp firm knowledge of medical statistics, including confidence intervals and probability values, numbers needed to treat, t tests and other parametric tests, survival analysis, and more. Highlighted examples, exam tips, and items of difficulty make this an ideal primer for all medical and health-related students and professionals.   Contents include: Statistics which describe data Statistics which test confidence Statistics which test differences Statistics which compare risk Statistics which analyze relationships Statistics which analyze survival Statistics which analyze clinical investigations and screening Statistics at work

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
About the authors	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
How to use this book	p. 1
How this book is designed	p. 4
Statistics that describe data
Percentages	p. 7
Mean	p. 9
Median	p. 12
Mode	p. 14
Standard deviation	p. 16
Statistics that test confidence
Confidence intervals	p. 20
P values	p. 24
Statistics that test differences
t tests and other parametric tests	p. 28
Mann-Whitney and other nonparametric tests	p. 31
Chi-squared test	p. 34
Statistics that compare risk
Risk ratio	p. 37
Odds ratio	p. 40
Risk reduction and numbers needed to treat	p. 43
Statistics that analyze relationships
Correlation	p. 48
Regression	p. 53
Statistics that analyze survival
Survival analysis: life tables and Kaplan-Meier plots	p. 57
The Cox regression model	p. 60
Statistics that analyze clinical investigations and screening
Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value	p. 62
Level of agreement and Kappa	p. 67
Other concepts	p. 69
Statistics at Work	p. 73
Standard deviation, relative risk, and numbers needed to treat	p. 74
Odds ratios and confidence intervals	p. 78
Correlation and regression	p. 81
Survival analysis	p. 85
Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values	p. 88
Glossary	p. 93
Index	p. 113
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