2nd Edition
by Belinda Barton (Author), Jennifer Peat (Contributor)
Medical Statistics provides the necessary statistical tools to enable researchers to undertake and understand evidence-based clinical research.
It
is a practical guide to conducting statistical research and
interpreting statistics in the context of how the participants were
recruited, how the study was designed, what types of variables were
used, what effect size was found, and what the P values mean. It
guides researchers through the process of selecting the correct
statistics and show how to best report results for presentation and
publication.
Clear and concise explanations, combined with plenty
of examples and tabulated explanations are based on the authors’
popular medical statistics courses.
The table of contents is
divided into sections according to whether data are continuous or
categorical in nature as this distinction is fundamental to selecting
the correct statistics. Each chapter provides a clear step-by-step guide
to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate
and interpret the numbers, and present the results as scientific tables
or graphs. The chapters conclude with critical appraisal guidelines to
help researchers review the reporting of results from each type of
statistical test.
This new edition includes a new chapter on
repeated measures and mixed models and a helpful glossary of terms
provides an easy reference that applies to all chapters.
