Description
Basic and Clinical Biostatistics provides medical students, researchers, and practitioners with the knowledge needed to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care. This fifth edition has been updated throughout to deliver a comprehensive, timely introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology as applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research. Particular emphasis is on study design and interpretation of results of research. Contents include : chapter on survey research and expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods ; Extensive examples on statistical methods and design issues ; Updated examples using R, an open source statistical software package ; Expanded coverage of data visualization, including content on visual perception and discussion of tools such as Tableau, Qlik and MS Power BI ; Sampling and power calculations imbedded with discussion of the statistical model. 367 p.
- Susan E. White. PhD, Associate Professor. Clinical School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Administrator of Analytics. James Cancer Hospital, Ohio State University, Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH (USA).
- Publication date (digital version): 2019-10.
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