Description
Principles and Practice of Biostatistics emphasizes the basic aspects of biostatistics most often used in the teaching and research areas of medical, nursing and allied health sciences.- Written in a simple tone and chapters are organized in logical order to ease the process of understanding.- Covers topics such as basic biostatistics, epidemiology & clinical trials, research methods & data management, and the most commonly used regression methods.- Stresses on the importance and appropriateness of statistical methods, their assumptions, validity and interpretation in the context of clinical data.- Each chapter is organized into Learning Objectives, Introduction of various statistical methods illustrated with Worked Examples and graphical methods as appropriate, ending with summarized Key Points.- Review Questions, Exercises and Multiple Choice Questions enable the reader a quick grasp of and greater insight into the methods presented in the text.
Table of Contents
1. Role of Biostatistics in Health Sciences2. Summarizing and Presentation of Data3. Probability4. Probability Distributions5. Sampling Methods6. Statistical Inference I – Estimation7. Statistical Inference II – Testing of Hypotheses8. Analysis of Variance and Multiple Comparisons9. Hypothesis Testing – Categorical Data10. Nonparametric Methods11. Correlation and Regression12. Epidemiological Study Designs and Analysis13. Clinical Trials14. Diagnostic Tests15. Introduction to Survival Analysis16. Clinical Measurements17. Demographical Methods and Vital Statistics18. Applied Regression Analysis and Multivariable Methods19. Research Methods20. Sample Size21. Meta-Analysis in Systematic ReviewsAppendix A: Statistical TablesAppendix B: Answers to Multiple Choice QuestionsAppendix C: Bibliography
