Research Catalog

Title

Statistics in medicine / Robert H. Riffenburgh.

Author

Riffenburgh, R. H. (Robert H.)

Publication

Burlington, MA : Elsevier Academic Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Subject

• Biometry > methods
• Models, Statistical

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 581-584) and indexes.

Contents

Ch. 1. Data, notation, and some basic terms -- Ch. 2. Distributions -- Ch. 3. Summary statistics -- Ch. 4. Confidence intervals and probability -- Ch. 5. Hypothesis testing : concept and practice -- Ch. 6. Statistical testing, risks, and odds in medical decisions -- Ch. 7. Sample size required for a study -- Ch. 8. Statistical prediction -- Ch. 9. Epidemiology -- Ch. 10. Reading medical articles -- Ch. 11. Using the reference guide -- Ch. 12. Planning medical studies -- Ch. 13. Finding probabilities of error -- Ch. 14. Confidence intervals -- Ch. 15. Tests on categorical data -- Ch. 16. Tests on ranked data -- Ch. 17. Tests on means of continuous data -- Ch. 18. Multifactor tests on means of continuous data -- Ch. 19. Tests on variances of continuous data -- Ch. 20. Tests on the distribution shape of continuous data -- Ch. 21. Equivalence testing -- Ch. 22. Sample size required in a study -- Ch. 23. Modeling and clinical decisions -- Ch. 24. Regression and correlation methods -- Ch. 25. Survival and time-series analysis -- Ch. 26. Methods you might meet, but not every day -- Tables of probability distributions -- I. Normal distribution -- II. t distribution -- III. Chi-square distribution, right tail -- IV. Chi-square distribution, left tail -- V. F distribution -- VI. Binomial distribution -- VII. Poisson distribution -- VIII. Signed-rank probabilities -- IX. Rank-sum U probabilities.

ISBN

0120887703 (alk. paper)

LCCN

9780120887705

OCLC

• ocm61745525
• SCSB-8855037

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries