David Baronov

Biostatistics

An Introduction and Conceptual Critique

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Biostatistical analysis contributes to amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How can biostatistics both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? David Baronov explores this question.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781032328386
• ISBN-10: 103232838X
• Artikelnr.: 65610807

Autorenporträt

David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where his current research interests include the ontology of social science methods and the quantitative/qualitative divide. Previous publications include Conceptual Foundations of Social Science Methods (2012) and The Dialectics of Inquiry across the Historical Social Sciences (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Just What Is an Introduction and Conceptual Critique?
2. Regression Analysis: Concepts and Groundwork
3. Study Designs and Sampling: A Beginning or the End?
4. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Conceptual Interpretations
5. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (1)
6. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (2)
7. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (3)
8. Optimal Sample Size-Or Benign Manipulation, the Good Kind
9. Probability: From Chaos to Nice, Orderly Distributions
10. And Finally... We Can Now Make Sense of Descriptive Statistics
Appendices
Index