Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials
- ISBN-10
- 1550090852
- ISBN-13
- 9781550090857
- Series
- Biostatistics
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- Pmph USA Limited
- Authors
- David L. Streiner, Geoffrey R. Norman
Description
This guide to biostatistics takes an entertaining approach. Students should benefit not only from the humorous aspects, but also the in-depth discussions. Topics include: data basics - normal distribution, probability, statistical inference; analysis of variance - t-test, paired t-test, one-way, factorial, and repeated-measures ANOVA; simple and multiple regression, regression and ANOVA, correlation, and factor analysis; and nonparametric statistics - tests of significance for categorical frequency data and ranked data, measures of association for categorical data and ranked data.
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- 2018-11-13
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