This book covers a range of statistical methods useful in the analysis of medical data, from the simple to the sophisticated, and shows how they may be applied using the latest versions of S-PLUS and S-PLUS 6. In each chapter several sets of medical data are explored and analysed using a mixture of graphical and model fitting approaches. At the end of each chapter the S-PLUS script files are listed, enabling readers to reproduce all the analyses and graphics in the chapter. These script files can be downloaded from a web site. The aim of the book is to show how to use S-PLUS as a powerful...
This book covers a range of statistical methods useful in the analysis of medical data, from the simple to the sophisticated, and shows how they may b...
Much of the data collected in medicine and the social sciences is categorical, for example, sex, marital status, blood group, whether a smoker or not and so on, rather than interval-scaled. Frequently the researcher collecting such data is interested in the relationships or associations between pairs, or between a set of such categorical variables; often the data is displayed in the form of a contingency table for example, smoker versus non-smoker against death from lung cancer or death from some other cause. This text gives a comprehensive account of the analysis of such tables, written at a...
Much of the data collected in medicine and the social sciences is categorical, for example, sex, marital status, blood group, whether a smoker or not ...
A short, accessible workbook detailing how to make the best use of the EQS software, often used in psychological and behavioural research. It has numerous examples and should enable users of the software to develop their own models and aid them in the interpretation of their data.
A short, accessible workbook detailing how to make the best use of the EQS software, often used in psychological and behavioural research. It has nume...
The Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science encompasses the refined statistical concepts and techniques that are essential to the advancement in psychology and its ever-widening fields of application.
Providing comprehensive accounts drawn from the huge expansion of statistical methodologies in the behavioral sciences, highlighting new techniques and developments from the past decade.
Up-to-date coverage of developing fields including neuroscience, behavioral genetics, decision learning and cognitive science.
Containing over 600 articles and...
The Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science encompasses the refined statistical concepts and techniques that are essential to t...
This book presents the human side of statistical consulting and illustrates the problems and opportunities that can arise for the modern consultant. Statistical problems occur in almost all areas of science, in medicine, in industry, in marketing, and in finance, and a wide range of interests is catered for by the twelve contributions to this unique volume. These contributions demonstrate that statistical consultancy provides a broad spectrum of intellectually stimulating problems, as well as being a vital tool in many aspects of modern life. The book will be valuable to university and...
This book presents the human side of statistical consulting and illustrates the problems and opportunities that can arise for the modern consultant. S...
With each new release of Stata, a comprehensive resource is needed to highlight the improvements as well as discuss the fundamentals of the software. Fulfilling this need, AHandbook of Statistical Analyses Using Stata, Fourth Edition has been fully updated to provide an introduction to Stata version 9. This edition covers many new features of Stata, including a new command for mixed models and a new matrix language.
Each chapter describes the analysis appropriate for a particular application, focusing on the medical, social, and behavioral fields. The authors begin...
With each new release of Stata, a comprehensive resource is needed to highlight the improvements as well as discuss the fundamentals of the software. ...
This book presents the human side of statistical consulting and illustrates the problems and opportunities that can arise for the modern consultant. Statistical problems occur in almost all areas of science, in medicine, in industry, in marketing, and in finance, and a wide range of interests is catered for by the twelve contributions to this unique volume. These contributions demonstrate that statistical consultancy provides a broad spectrum of intellectually stimulating problems, as well as being a vital tool in many aspects of modern life. The book will be valuable to university and...
This book presents the human side of statistical consulting and illustrates the problems and opportunities that can arise for the modern consultant. S...
Updated to reflect SAS 9.2, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS, Third Edition continues to provide a straightforward description of how to conduct various statistical analyses using SAS.
Each chapter shows how to use SAS for a particular type of analysis. The authors cover inference, analysis of variance, regression, generalized linear models, longitudinal data, survival analysis, principal components analysis, factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant function analysis, and correspondence analysis. They demonstrate the analyses through real-world examples,...
Updated to reflect SAS 9.2, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS, Third Edition continues to provide a straightforward descri...
Medical statistics is increasingly important in many areas of medicine and the rise of evidence-based medicine will make it still more so. With coverage ranging from simple definitions and basic tests to the latest technique used at the cutting edge of medical research, this book will be useful to anyone working in the field.
Medical statistics is increasingly important in many areas of medicine and the rise of evidence-based medicine will make it still more so. With covera...
Applied statisticians often need to perform analyses of multivariate data; for these they will typically use one of the statistical software packages, S-Plus or R. This book sets out how to use these packages for these analyses in a concise and easy-to-use way, and will save users having to buy two books for the job. The author is well-known for this kind of book, and so buyers will trust that he s got it right."
Applied statisticians often need to perform analyses of multivariate data; for these they will typically use one of the statistical software packag...
