The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians

Subject Index 213

Median 42, 44, 46

Median survival time 160, 173

Medical intervention 11, 13

Meta analysis 88, 90

Minimum variance 62

Minimum variance unbiased

estimator 62

Mixture models 171

Mode 42, 46

Models 170, 174

Mound-shaped distribution 49

Multicollinearity 112

Multiple regression 95, 104, 122

Multiple testing 1

Negative Exponential distribution 168,

173

Neyman-Pearson approach 72, 75, 84

Non-inferiority ix, 84, 86, 170

Normal distribution 51, 55, 61, 71, 145,

147

Normality 148

Nonparametric methods 145, 153

Null hypothesis 73, 75, 79, 84, 133,

147

Number at risk 163, 164

Observed frequency 128

Odds ratio 138, 140, 141

One-sided p-value 134, 135

One-tailed test 74, 75

Outliers 39, 44, 104, 105, 122, 153

Paired difference 149

Paired t-test 76, 77, 149

Parameter 32, 145

Parametric model 145

Parametric survival curves 168

Partial correlation 111

Pearson product moment correlation 95,

96, 99, 100, 122, 123, 150, 153

Peto’s method 5, 14

Pharmacodynamic studies 11

Pharmacokinetic studies 11

Pie chart 38, 42

Pivotal quantity 65

Placebo 13

Poisson distribution 33, 58, 58, 60

Pooled estimate 68

Population 17, 18

Population mean 66

Power function 73, 74, 84

Prediction interval 103

Proportions 58

Prospective trial 13, 14

Protocol 7

Public opinion polls 11

P-values 8, 14, 74, 75, 88, 92, 134,

135, 136, 174

Quality of life 11

R^2 111, 117, 122

RxC contingency table 127, 132,

133

Ranking data 146

Ranks 147

Rank tests 148, 153

Randomization 8, 13, 16

Random sample 16, 19, 23

Random sampling 15

Regression analysis 110, 114

Regression diagnostics 112

Regression line 100

Regression fallacy 126

Regression toward the mean 126

Relative risk 121, 138, 139, 140,

141

Rejection sampling method 32

Repeated measures ix, 86

Retrospective studies 11, 14

Right censoring 159

Robust regression 44, 105, 111,

170

Sample mean 100

Sample size 4, 16, 47, 58, 65,

66

Sample variances 100

Sampling procedure 15, 17

Scatter plot 96, 97, 99, 101, 122,

123, 124

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