Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins withdatabases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies fromconception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step instructions for biostatistical methods from the simplest levels (averages, bar charts) progressively to the more sophisticated methods now being seen in medical articles (multiple regression, noninferiority testing). Examples are given from almost every medical specialty and from dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and health care management. A preliminary guide is given to tailor sections of the text to various lengths of biostatistical courses. *User-friendly format includes medical examples, step-by-step methods, and check-yourself exercises. *Facilitates stand-alone methods rather than a required sequence ofreading and references to prior text. * Covers trial randomization, treatmentethics in medical research, imputation of missing data, evidence-based medical decisions, how to interpret medical articles, noninferiority testing, meta-analysis, screening number needed to treat, and epidemiology. New in this Edition: * New chapters on planning research, managing data and analysis, Bayesian statistics, measuring association and agreement, and questionnaires and surveys. * New sections on what tests and descriptive statistics to choose, false discovery rate, interim analysis, bootstrapping, Bland-Altman plots, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and Deming regression. * Expanded coverage on probability, statistical methods and tests relatively new to medical research, ROC curves, experimental design, and survival analysis. PRAISE FOR THE SECOND EDITION: ".the author presents statistical concepts in fairly simple language and in a format that will make it especially appealing to a clinician.All clinicians will find this book useful, whether they are students, residents, or practitioners.particularly helpful to clinicians who do not have the time or interest in getting comprehensive training in biostatistics, yet need to understand and use these concepts in their professional careers.particularly useful are the illustrations and examples, exercises along with their answers, appendixes, and use of real data. Formulas are explained clearly, in a step-by-step fashion.This is one of the few books that presents hard to understand statistical concepts applied to real-world medical data in a relatively simple manner. The secondedition expands on the first and includes more advanced topics as well as current concepts." - DOODY Enterprises, Inc. "This book is excellent value for the clinician who wants to evaluate the research (s)he reads and for those who carry out research." - Margaret Moss, UK, for JOURNAL OF NUTRITIONAL & ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE FROM THE FOREWORD OF THE SECOND EDITION: "I congratulate Dr. Riffenburgh on his career as a medical statistician and for this useful text/reference book, which I commend to all who teach statistics to students in the health-related fields and to all who are engaged in or are consumers of health-related research." - W. M. (Mike) O'Fallon, Professor Emeritus and former Head of Biostatistics and Chair of the Dept. of Health Science Research, Mayo Clinic PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION: "This user-friendly text is laid out in a practical fashion that includes numerous examples for applying complex tests. Thisbook is complete enough for even the hard core bioresearcher." - Richard A. Hill, University of California-Irvine "Statistics can be overwhelming for the health professional and Dr. Riffenburgh gives them the tools to make preparing proposals using statistical applications easy. I wholeheartedly recommend thisbook to any professional, novice or seasoned, involved in the research process." - Capt. Peggy McNulty, U.S. Naval Health Clinic, Hawaii
- ISBN: 978-0-12-384864-2
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 738
- Fecha Publicación: 12/08/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés