Biostatistics : the bare essentials / Geoffrey R. Norman, David L. Streiner.

"New for 2014, Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials, 4th Edition, includes updated information on robust estimators of the mean, the problems of multiple hypothesis testing, bootstrapping and resampling and non-parametric stats. In addition, an entirely new chapter title Measures of Impact discus...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Norman, Geoffrey R. (Author), Streiner, David L. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Shelton, Conn. : People's Medical Publishing House-USA, 2014.
Edition:Fourth edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The nature of data and statistics: the basics
  • Looking at the data
  • Describing the data with numbers
  • The normal distribution
  • Probability
  • Elements of Statistical inference
  • Analysis of variance: Comparing two groups the T-test
  • More than two groups one way ANOVA
  • Factorial ANOVA
  • Two repeated observations the paired T-test and alternatives
  • Repaeted-measures ANOVA
  • Multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA)
  • C.R.A.P. detectors
  • Regression and correlation: Simple regression and correlation
  • Multiple regression
  • Logistic and poisson regression
  • Advanced topis in regression and ANOVA
  • Measuring change
  • Analysis of Longitudinal data: Hierarchical linear modeling
  • Non-parametric statistics: Tests of significance for categorical frequency data
  • Measures of association for categorical data
  • tests of significance for ranked data
  • Measures of association for ranked data
  • Survival analysis
  • Measures of impact introductory side bar
  • Reprise: Equivalence and Non-inferiority testing
  • Screwups, oddballs, and other vagaries of science
  • Putting it all together
  • gettting started with SPSS.