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Now in its Third Edition, An Introduction to Medical Statistics continues to be and invaluable textbook for medical students, doctors, medical researchers, nurses, members of professionals allied to medicine as well as those concerned with medical data. The material covered includes all the statistical work that would be required for a course in medicine and for the examinations of most of the Royal Colleges. It includes the design of clinical trials and epidemiological studies, data collection, summarizing and presenting data, probability, standard error, confidence intervals and significance tests, techniques of data analysis including multifactorial methods and the choice of statistical method, problems of medical measurement and diagnosis, vital statistics, and calculation of sample size. The new edition describes the design and analysis of medical research studies in a clear and user friendly manner. The third edition includes new topics such as consent in clinical trials, design and analysis of cluster-randomized trials, ecological studies, conditional probability, repeated testing, random effects models, intraclass correlation and conditional odds ratios. Material which is encountered only at the postgraduate level has been indicated clearly in the text to facilitate ease or use. The book is firmly grounded in medical data, particularly in medical research, and includes real illustrative examples. There are 100 multiple choice questions and 17 long questions involving calculations to which fully explained solutions are provided. A new companion volume, Statisitical questions in evidence based medicine (Bland & Peacock, 2000) refers directly to this new edition. This new book of questions and answers includes no calculations and is complementary to the exercises given here.
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The material covered includes all the statistical work that would be required in a course in medicine. (CAB Abstracts)
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An Introduction to Medical Statistics
The approach to statistics in my book is firmly embedded in medical research. All the methods described are illustrated with the use of real data, either from my own research or from the medical literature. Equations and formulae are given where appropriate and manual calculation is described, but the use of computers for calculations is emphasised, together with the graphical methods which computers make easy. For those who do not like to take things on trust, mathematical appendices are included which explain the derivation of the various statistical formulae, and graphical simulations are used to illustrate some of the more surprising statistical principles. Sections which cover material not usually included in the undergraduate syllabus are clearly indicated.
The approach to statistics in my book is firmly embedded in medical research. All the methods described are illustrated with the use of real data, either from my own research or from the medical literature. Equations and formulae are given where appropriate and manual calculation is described, but the use of computers for calculations is emphasised, together with the graphical methods which computers make easy. For those who do not like to take things on trust, mathematical appendices are included which explain the derivation of the various statistical formulae, and graphical simulations are used to illustrate some of the more surprising statistical principles. Sections which cover material not usually included in the undergraduate syllabus are clearly indicated.
Two types of exercises are included: 100 multiple-choice questions of the five branches True/False type, and long exercises involving calculations. Full solutions are given.
You can try before you buy. Specimen sections, including some exercises and answers, can be read on my website.
You can also download most of the data sets used in the book from this site, so that you can try the analyses for yourself.
I hope you like this book. There is a companion book, Statistical Questions in Evidence-based Medicine, by myself and Janet Peacock, which has no calculations but rather is concerned with understanding and interpretation of the statistical methods used in medical research. This is also described, with sample questions and answers, on my web site.
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- PublisherOxford Univ Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0194424553
- ISBN 13 9780194424554
- BindingHardcover
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