Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Primer for Health Professionals
- ISBN-10
- 1475724241
- ISBN-13
- 9781475724240
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-29
- Publisher
- Springer Science & Business Media
- Author
- Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller
Description
Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Primer for Health Professionals focuses on the underlying framework of the field and offers practical guidelines for research and interpretation. In addition to major sections devoted to statistics and epidemiology, the book includes a comprehensive exploration of the scientific method, probability, and clinical trials. New to the second edition are: -a reorganization of the material -new information on survival analysis such as the Cox proportional hazards model -topics in nonparametric statistics -expanded discussion of probability and its applications in epidemiology -an entirely new chapter on areas relevant to behavioral research and change scores, reliability, validity, and responsiveness -new appendices providing specific and clear instructions on how to carry out several additional statistical calculations and tests Biostatistics and Epidemiology describes principles and methods applicable to medicine, public health, allied health, psychology and education and will be useful not only to physicians doing clinical as well as basic science research, but also to students at undergraduate, graduate and medical school levels.
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- 2013-03-09
- 119 pages
- Ebook
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- 2006-05-10
- 244 pages
- Ebook
- Springer Science & Business Media
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- 2015-02-05
- 260 pages
- Ebook
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