The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians

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The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians Michael R. Chernick Lankenau Institute for Medical Resear ...

Copyright © 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jers ...

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Medical Research 1. The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in 1.1 Defi nition of Statistics and Biostatistics, 1.2 Why Study S ...

ix I have taught biostatistics in the health sciences and published a book in 2003 with Wiley on that topic. That book is a text ...

x Preface I am very grateful to Professor Marlene Egger, who carefully reviewed the manuscript and made several wonderful sugges ...

1 The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians, First Edition. Michael R. Chernick. © 2011 John Wiley ...

2 CHAPTER 1 The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research the analysis of spatial data, and so does geostatistics. ...

1.2 Why Study Statistics? 3 Because almost every experiment involves uncertainty, statistics is the scientifi c method for quant ...

4 CHAPTER 1 The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research So we learn statistics so that we know what makes sense ...

1.2 Why Study Statistics? 5 industries where a little knowledge of statistics would have made life easier for some of my coworke ...

6 CHAPTER 1 The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research In these situations, Peto ’ s method gives a better esti ...

1.2 Why Study Statistics? 7 interval. Your statistician can provide this for you in less than 1 day and you are greatly relieved ...

8 CHAPTER 1 The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research statistics group, but the CRO is tasked to handle the da ...

1.3 The Medical Literature 9 controlled clinical trials continues to increase rapidly, as the demand for fi nding new and better ...

10 CHAPTER 1 The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research From 1982 to 2010, this trend has continued, and fortun ...