Statistical Thinking in Epidemiology

Statistical Thinking in Epidemiology
ISBN-10
1420099922
ISBN-13
9781420099928
Category
Mathematics
Pages
231
Language
English
Published
2016-04-19
Publisher
CRC Press
Authors
Yu-Kang Tu, Mark Gilthorpe

Description

While biomedical researchers may be able to follow instructions in the manuals accompanying the statistical software packages, they do not always have sufficient knowledge to choose the appropriate statistical methods and correctly interpret their results. Statistical Thinking in Epidemiology examines common methodological and statistical problems

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