The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians

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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 Statistics?,

    • 1.3 The Medical Literature,

    • 1.4 Medical Research Studies,

      • 1.4.1 Cross-sectional studies including surveys,

      • 1.4.2 Retrospective studies,

      • 1.4.3 Prospective studies other than clinical trials,

      • 1.4.4 Controlled clinical trials,

      • 1.4.5 Conclusions,



    • 1.5 Exercises,





    1. Sampling from Populations

      • 2.1 Defi nitions of Populations and Samples,

      • 2.2 Simple Random Sampling,

      • 2.3 Selecting Simple Random Samples,

      • 2.4 Other Sampling Methods,

      • 2.5 Generating Bootstrap Samples,

      • 2.6 Exercises,







    1. Graphics and Summary Statistics

      • 3.1 Continuous and Discrete Data,

      • 3.2 Categorical Data,

      • 3.3 Frequency Histograms,

      • 3.4 Stem-and-Leaf Diagrams,

      • 3.5 Box Plots,

      • 3.6 Bar and Pie Charts,

      • 3.7 Measures of the Center of a Distribution,

        • 3.8 Measures of Dispersion, vi Contents

        • 3.9 Exercises,









    1. Normal Distribution and Related Properties

      • 4.1 Averages and the Central Limit Theorem,

      • 4.2 Standard Error of the Mean,

      • 4.3 Student’s t-Distribution,

      • 4.4 Exercises,







    1. Estimating Means and Proportions

      • 5.1 The Binomial and Poisson Distributions,

      • 5.2 Point Estimates,

      • 5.3 Confi dence Intervals,

      • 5.4 Sample Size Determination,

        • Intervals, 5.5 Bootstrap Principle and Bootstrap Confi dence



      • 5.6 Exercises,







    1. Hypothesis Testing

      • 6.1 Type I and Type II Errors,

      • 6.2 One-Tailed and Two-Tailed Tests,

      • 6.3 P-Values,

        • Two-Sample t-Test, 6.4 Comparing Means from Two Independent Samples:



      • 6.5 Paired t-Test,

      • 6.6 Testing a Single Binomial Proportion,

        • Tests, 6.7 Relationship Between Confi dence Intervals and Hypothesis



      • 6.8 Sample Size Determination,

      • 6.9 Bootstrap Tests,

      • 6.10 Medical Diagnosis: Sensitivity and Specifi city,

      • 6.11 Special Tests in Clinical Research,

        • 6.11.1 Superiority tests,

        • 6.11.2 Equivalence and bioequivalence,

        • 6.11.3 Noninferiority tests,

        • Data Analysis, 6.12 Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance and Longitudinal







    • 6.13 Meta-Analysis,

    • 6.14 Exercises,

      • Regression 7. Correlation, Regression, and Logistic

        • Plot, 7.1 Relationship Between Two Variables and the Scatter

        • 7.2 Pearson’s Correlation,

          • Estimation, 7.3 Simple Linear Regression and Least Squares



        • 7.4 Sensitivity to Outliers and Robust Regression,

        • 7.5 Multiple Regression,

        • 7.6 Logistic Regression,

        • 7.7 Exercises,







      1. Contingency Tables

        • 8.1 2 × 2 Tables and Chi-Square,

        • 8.2 Simpson’s Paradox in the 2 × 2 Table,

        • 8.3 The General R × C Table,

        • 8.4 Fisher’s Exact Test,

        • 8.5 Correlated Proportions and McNemar’s Test,

        • 8.6 Relative Risk and Odds Ratio,

        • 8.7 Exercises,







      1. Nonparametric Methods

        • 9.1 Ranking Data,

        • 9.2 Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test,

        • 9.3 Sign Test,

        • 9.4 Spearman’s Rank-Order Correlation Coeffi cient,

        • 9.5 Insensitivity of Rank Tests to Outliers,

        • 9.6 Exercises,









    1. Survival Analysis

      • 10.1 Time-to-Event Data and Right Censoring,

      • 10.2 Life Tables,

      • 10.3 Kaplan–Meier Curves,

        • of survival, 10.3.1 The Kaplan–Meier curve: a nonparametric estimate

        • estimate, 10.3.2 Confi dence intervals for the Kaplan–Meier

        • or more survival curves, 10.3.3 The logrank and chi-square tests: comparing two







    • 10.4 Parametric Survival Curves, viii Contents

      • 10.4.1 Negative exponential survival distributions,

      • 10.4.2 Weibull family of survival distributions,



    • 10.5 Cox Proportional Hazard Models,

    • 10.6 Cure Rate Models,

    • 10.7 Exercises,



  • Solutions to Selected Exercises

  • Appendix: Statistical Tables

  • References

  • Author Index

  • Subject Index

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