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The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians,

First Edition. Michael R. Chernick.

© 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published 2011 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Subject Index

Adaptive design 1

Alternative hypothesis 84,149

Analysis of variance ix, 10, 86, 115

Anderson-Darling test 148

AR(1) 87

Arithmetic mean 42, 46, 48, 52, 58, 65,

66

Association 122, 127

Autoregressive 87

Average 15

Backward selection 112

Bar chart 38, 42

Baseline hazard function 170

Bayes’ rule 62

Bayesian approach 88, 172

Bayesian method 62, 88

BCa 69

Beta distribution 61

Bias 14, 16, 105, 162

Bimodal 40

Binomial coeffi cient 18

Binomial distribution 33, 58, 59, 60,

149

Biostatistics 1

Bivariate correlation 153

Bivariate normal distribution 95

Blinding 13, 14

Bootstrap confi dence intervals 65, 67,

69

Bootstrap distribution 31

Bootstrap estimates 27

Bootstrapping 26, 27, 66, 145

Bootstrap principle 67, 70

Bootstrap sample 26, 30, 31, 32, 67, 69,

81

Bootstrap sampling 32

Bootstrap-t 69

Box plots 38, 40, 42, 57

Case-control study 141

Categorical data 33

Categorical variables 127

Censoring time 161

Central chi-square distribution 132

Chebyshev inequality 49, 50

Chi-square 10, 88, 129, 132, 166, 167

Clinical trial 4, 14, 143

Cohort study 139, 140

Combinations 18

Compound symmetry 87

Confi dence intervals 102, 103,123, 165

Consistency 27, 61

Contingency tables ix, 127, 133, 141,

143

Continuity correction 79

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