Chernick, Michael R.

Introductory biostatistics for the health sciences : modern applications including bootstrap / yazarlar; Michael R. Chernick, Robert H. Friis. - 1 online resource (xvii, 406 pages) : illustrations.

Print version issued in series: Wiley series in probability and statistics. Includes index.

What is statistics? How is it applied to the health sciences? -- Defining populations and selecting samples -- Systematic organization and display of data -- Summary statistics -- Basic probability -- The normal distribution -- Sampling distributions for means -- Estimating population means -- Tests of hypotheses -- Inferences regarding proportions -- Categorical data and chi-square tests -- Correlation, linear regression, and logistic regression -- One-way analysis of variance -- Nonparametric methods -- Analysis of survival times -- Software packages for statistical analysis.

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Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians.: Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection and treatment.; Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout.; Motivating applications are presented in light of honest theory.; Plentiful exercises are sprinkled throughout.


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2010.


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Biometry
Statistics as Topic--methods
Biometry--methods
Epidemiologic Methods.
MATHEMATICS--Probability & Statistics--General.
Biometry.
Statistische methoden.
Geneeskunde.

Biostatistics General introductory medical sciences Public health. Medical statistics


Electronic resource.

WA 950 / C521 2003EBK