Statistics at Square One

The new edition of this bestseller continues to demystify the world of statistics for health care professionals. Revised throughout, the 11th edition features n... » 

The new edition of this bestseller continues to demystify the world of statistics for health care professionals. Revised throughout, the 11th edition features new material in the areas of binary data to deal with relative risk, absolute risk, and the evidence-based criteria of numbers needed to treat. Each chapter now has a section on reading and reporting statistics. Self-testing at the end of each section makes this an even stronger learning tool. Inhoud:Data display and summary.Summary of statistics for quantitative and binary data.Populations and samples.Statements of probability and confidence intervals.Differences between means: type I and type II errors and power.Confidence intervals for summary statistics of binary data.The t tests.The X2 tests.Exact probability test.Rank score tests.Correlation and regression.Survival analysis.Study design and choosing a statistical test.Diagnostic tests, sensitivity and specificity «