Introductory biostatistics for the health sciences modern applications including bootstrap /
Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians.: Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection and treatment.; Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout.; Motivating applications are presented in light of honest theory.; Plentifu...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Wiley series in probability and statistics |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/0471458716 |
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Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians.: Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection and treatment.; Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout.; Motivating applications are presented in light of honest theory.; Plentiful exercises are sprinkled throughout. |
Item Description: | Print version issued in series: Wiley series in probability and statistics. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvii, 406 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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047141137X 9780471411376 0471458716 9780471458715 9780471458654 0471458651 1280366265 9781280366260 |
Index Number: | R853 |
CLC: | R195.1 |
Contents: | What is statistics? How is it applied to the health sciences? -- 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 logistic regression -- One-way analysis of variance -- Nonparametric methods -- Analysis of survival times -- Software packages for statistical analysis. |