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An Introduction to Medical Statistics Paperback – 1 November 2000

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Now in its Third Edition, An Introduction to Medical Statistics continues to be an invaluable textbook for medical students, doctors, medical researchers, nurses, members of professions allied to medicine as well as all 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 of 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, Statistical 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. Reviewers comments 'If you want to understand some of the statistical ideas important to medicine but fear being overwhelmed by mathematics you will welcome An Introduction to Medical Statistics.' British Medical Journal 'At last I have a book on medical statistics that I can safely recommend to my students!...One of the pleasures of the book is that it contains real data...' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society

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432 pages
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English
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Oxford University Press BPS
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1 November 2000
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15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm
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0192632698
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978-0192632692
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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oxford University Press BPS; 3rd edition (1 November 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 432 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0192632698
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0192632692
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm

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Esmeralda

This is an excellent book for learning about statistical tests

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This is an excellent book for learning about statistical tests. Good explanations. The newest version includes more stats. It's one of my "go to" books for statistics.

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Learn Truth and Reality in a Personable Way: Solving Problems With a GodFather of Statistics!!

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If you want to know how statistics are applied in medicine, and are interested in study design to gain accurate data this is a good book. It covers sampling, observational and/or experimental trial design. If you want to learn how to summarise and present a range of data then this book is for you. If you are interested in theoretical concepts such as probability, distributions, and that of estimations this book is the 1. If you want to know about significance tests and hypotheses testing this book is for you. If you are really clever and want to know about regression and correlation and much more other stuff than this book is for you. If you are like me and perhaps not so clever but want to learn how to read and review research in health this book is for you. This book has use for a lot of people, it serves an array of needs and ability. If you want to learn how to do maths this book is probably not for you. However, the equations are placed within the text for those that do want this. Here is a story about this book. I am a nurse, I first came across the book by chance, a friend of the family was at the time training to be a consultant psychiatrist. He was using this book to help him prepare for one of his exams. He passed! I then borrowed the book, for one of my exams. I never returned it, and I was asked on several occasions if I could do so. I had misplaced the book (if my memory serves me correctly!). The psychiatrist had replaced the missing book himself, and fortunately I had not caused him too much distress. Many years later, my partner's friend was writing up a report. He is a consultant working within orthopaedics. I offered to lend him the book, and he kept it! What goes around comes around? So, I recently purchased for the first time my own copy of this book. This story, a true story, goes someway into demonstrating the need for a range of health professionals to know they have access to an introduction to medical statistics. It covers all relevant topics to do with medical research; teaches the essential concepts; constructs; and applications. The fact that no one in this story wanted to give the book back to anyone after it met their requirement illustrates that this book is quite a treasure! It has many useful purposes, and one will need it and learn from it time and time again. In my view, I think the author's genius is his humanistic nature. He is able to apply a good sense of humour (when needed), and make very succinct points cleverly (that stick) - there is a paragraph on ethics and a group formed by women called RAGE. It is a genuine book. Written by a genuine professor, that enjoys his subject and teaching. We are fortunate as the book contains a lifetime of continuous education, broad experience in the field and truth of research. Ten years later, I was to find that by chance, the author of this book became one of our lecturers. If you are a medical professional not in the class and think that you are not as lucky as me (to have the real thing), think again. This book is a great all-in-one guide by your side. Like most of life's problem-solving and learning, one book, or tool is not sufficient. Particularly not for me! This book requires the reader to engage with the material. One tip - do not let anyone borrow it! Wishing you a Happy Ending!

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manuale completo per ricercatori

Reviewed in Italy on 21 November 2013

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Le basi della statistica medica esposte con completezza da un maestro. Il testo fa il paio con quello di Douglas Altman, che consiglio di acquistare per avere una visione completa della materia.

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Hans Bauer

Sehr gute Balance zwischen Zugänglichkeit und mathematischen Herleitungen

Reviewed in Germany on 6 January 2013

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Habe das Buch als Begleitlektüre zum Statistikkurs für Epidemiologen gekauft. Ich finde, es schafft ein sehr gutes Gleichgewicht zwischen Verständlichkeit/Zugänglichkeit und Erläuterung der mathematischen Grundlagen (sicherlich nicht sehr tiefgehend, aber das ist ja auch nicht Sinn und Zweck von so einem Buch). Bislang habe ich auch zu den meisten Themen, zu denen ich etwas nachlesen musste, im Buch etwas gefunden. Dazu noch der für ein Lehrbuch sehr moderate Preis. Sehr zu empfehlen!

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