Principles of Biostatistics

ISBN-13: 9780367355807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 604 str.

USA) MA Heather (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Opis

This book is a concepts-based introduction to statistical procedures that prepares public health, medical, and life sciences students to conduct and evaluate research. Thoroughly revised, this third edition includes a new chapter introducing the basic principles of Study Design.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I Variability 2. Descriptive Statistics 3. Rates and Standardization 4. Life Tables Part II Probability 5. Probability 6. Screening and Diagnostic Tests 7. Theoretical Probability Distributions 8. Sampling Distribution of the Mean Part III Inference 9. Confidence Intervals 10. Hypothesis Testing 11. Comparison of Two Means 12. Analysis of Variance 13. Nonparametric Methods 14. Inference on Proportions 15. Contingency Tables 16. Correlation 17. Simple Linear Regression 18. Multiple Linear Regression 19. Logistic Regression 20. Survival Analysis 21. Sampling Theory 22. Study Design Bibliography Glossary Statistical Tables Index