Chernick / Friis Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences

Modern Applications Including Bootstrap
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-471-45865-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten, E-Book

Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, aswell as most statisticians.
* Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection andtreatment.
* Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout.
* Motivating applications are presented in light of honesttheory.
* Plentiful exercises are sprinkled throughout.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chernick, Michael R.

Friis, Robert H.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
What is Statistics? How is it Applied in the HealthSciences?
Defining Populations and Selecting Samples.
Systematic Organization and Display of Data.
Summary Statistics.
Basic Probability.
The Normal Distribution.
Sampling Distributions for Means.
Estimating Population Means.
Tests of Hypotheses.
Inferences Regarding Proportions.
Categorical Data and Chi-Square Tests.
Correlation, Linear Regression, and LogisticRegression.
One-Way Analysis of Variance.
Nonparametric Methods.
Analysis of Survival Times.
Software Packages for Statistical Analysis.
Postscript.
Appendix A. Percentage Points, F-Distribution(a = 0.05).
Appendix B. Studentized Range Statistics.
Appendix C. Quantiles of the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank TestStatistic.
Appendix D. X² Distribution.
Appendix E. Table of the Standard Normal Distribution.
Appendix F. Percentage Points, Student's tDistribution.
Appendix G. Answers to Selected Exercises.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

MICHAEL R. CHERNICK, PhD, is the Assistant Director ofBiostatistics at Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Princeton,New Jersey. He is the author of Bootstrap Methods: A Practitioner?sGuide.
ROBERT FRIIS, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department ofHealth Science at California State University, Long Beach. He issenior author of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice and haspublished more than fifty papers related to epidemiology.