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Making Sense of Medical Statistics 1st Edition

Making Sense of Medical Statistics Do you want to know what a parametric test is and when not to perform one? Do you get confused between odds ratios and relative risks? Want to understand the difference between sensitivity and specificity? Would like to find out what the fuss is about Bayes’ theorem? Then this book is for you! Physicians need to understand the principles behind medical statistics. They don’t need to learn the formula. The software knows it already! This book explains the fundamental concepts of medical statistics so that the learner will become confident in performing the most commonly used statistical tests. Each chapter is rich in anecdotes, illustrations, questions, and answers. Not enough? There is more material online with links to free statistical software, webpages, multimedia content, a practice dataset to get hands-on with data analysis, and a Single Best Answer questionnaire for the exam.

Contents

۱. Medicine and Numbers: Where Is the Connection?
۲. Measuring a Variable: Why Eye Colour and Height Are Different
۳. Summarising Data: Communicating Easily
۴. Why Average and Range Is Not Always Enough: Standard Deviation and Standard Error
۵. The Normal Distribution: What’s So ‘Normal’ About It?
۶. Confidence Interval: What Is Your Guesstimate?
۷. Innocent Until Proven Guilty! The Null Hypothesis
۸. Errors in Hypothesis Tests: Learn Your α From Your ß
۹. The Randomised Controlled Trial: Why Does It Have To Be Random?
۱۰. Choosing a Statistical Test: To ‘t’ or Not to ‘t’?
۱۱. Finding the Odd One Out: The ANOVA Test
۱۲. Categorically Different? The Chi-Squared Test
۱۳. If the Line Fits: Correlation and Linear Regression
۱۴. Hindsight is 20/20: Logistic Regression
۱۵. Don’t Risk the Odds: Risk versus Odds as the Outcome Measure
۱۶. I Will Survive! Time to Event Data Analysis
۱۷. High Ceiling or Low Threshold? Accuracy of a Diagnostic Test
۱۸. Apples or Oranges? Meta-Analysis of Selected Studies
۱۹. Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Facts from Fiction!