BIOSTATISTICS: THE BARE ESSENTIALS - Brossura

NORMAN

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1550091239 ISBN 13: 9781550091236

Casa editrice: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa, 2000

Riassunto

This new edition of the ultimate guide to biostatistics once again takes a highly entertaining approach to an area normally reserved for dry, hard-to-follow books. Students benefit not only from the humorous aspects, but also the in-depth and memorable discussions.
The first edition sold 10,500 units (English and Spanish editions). The second edition contains updates and revisions to every chapter.

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Contenuti:

Section 1: THE NATURE OF DATA AND STATISTICS
1. The Basics
2. Looking at the Data: A First Look at Graphing Data
3. Describing the Data with Numbers: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
4. The Normal Distribution
5. Probability
6. Elements of Statistical Inference
C.R.A.P. Detectors

Section 2: ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
7. Comparing Two Groups: The t-Test
8. More than Two Groups: One-Way ANOVA
9. Factorial ANOVA
10. Two Repeated Observations: The Paired t-Test and Alternatives
11. Repeated Measures ANOVA
12. Multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA)
C.R.A.P. Detectors

Section 3: REGRESSION AND CORRELATION
13. Simple Regression and Correlation
14. Multiple Regression
15. Logistic Regression
16. Advanced Topics in Regression and ANOVA
17. Measuring Change
18. Principal Components and Factor Analysis: Fooling Around with Factors
19. Structural Equation Modeling
C.R.A.P. Detectors

Section 4: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS
20. Tests of Significance for Categorical Frequency Data
21. Measures of Association for Categorical Data
22. Tests of Significance for Ranked Data
23. Measures of Association for Ranked Data
24. Life Table (Survival) Analysis
C.R.A.P. Detectors

Section 5: REPRISE
25. Screwups, Oddballs, and other Vagaries of Science: Locating Outliers, Handling Missing Data, and Transformations
26. Putting It All Together

Test Yourself (Being a Compendium of Questions and Answers)
Answers to Chapter Exercises
References and Further Readings
Unabashed Glossary
Appendices

Product Description:

Book by Geoffrey R Norman David L Streiner

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• Editore: McGraw-Hill Education / Europe, Middle East & Africa
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1550091239
• ISBN 13: 9781550091236
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 324