Aviva Petrie, Caroline Sabin

Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook

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Produktbeschreibung

Designed to support the best-selling third edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance, this comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods allowing readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it to a medical context and when reading published literature.

Echoing the structure of, and fully cross-referenced to, its parent title, Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook offers a range of methods to test and extend knowledge of medical statistics, whether Medical Statistics at a Glance or another statistics book is being used to learn concepts.

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This comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods that allow readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it in a medical context, while also providing guidance when critically appraising published literature. It is designed to support the best-selling third edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance, to which it is fully cross-referenced, but may be used independently of it.

Ideal for medical students, junior doctors, researchers and anyone working in the biomedical and pharmaceutical disciplines who wants to feel more confident in basic medical statistics, the title includes:

Over 80 MCQs, each testing knowledge of a single statistical concept or aspect of study interpretation
29 structured questions to explore in greater depth several statistical techniques or principles, including the choice of appropriate statistical analyses and the interpretation of study findings
Templates for the appraisal of clinical trials and observational studies, plus full appraisals of two published papers to demonstrate the use of these templates in practice
Detailed step-by-step analyses of two substantial data sets (also available at www.medstatsaag.com) to demonstrate the application of statistical procedures to real-life research

Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook is the ideal resource to test statistical knowledge and improve analytical and interpretational skills.

Additional resources are available at www.medstatsaag.com, including:
Excel datasets to accompany the data analysis section
Downloadable PDFs of two templates for critical appraisal
Links to online further reading
Supplementary MCQs

Produktdetails

• At a Glance .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14565848000
• 3. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2013
• Abmessung: 280mm x 216mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780470658482
• ISBN-10: 0470658487
• Artikelnr.: 36672398

Autorenporträt

Aviva Petrie is Head of Biostatistics Unit and Senior Lecturer, Eastman Dental Institute, University College London; Honorary Lecturer in Medical Statistics, Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Caroline Sabin is Professor of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, Research Department of Infection and Population Health, Division of Population Health, University College London, Royal Free Campus

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: MCQs Handling data Sampling and estimation Study
design Hypothesis testing Basic techniques for analysing data Additional
techniques Part 2: Structured Questions Part 3: Critical appraisal
Randomised controlled trial: template Paper 1: a randomised controlled
trial Observational study: template Paper 2: an observational study Part 4:
Data analysis Dataset 1 analysed by Stata v11 Dataset 2 analysed using IBM
SPSS Statistics v20 Part 5: Solutions Solutions to MCQs Model answers for
structured questions Critical appraisal of Paper 1 Critical appraisal of
Paper 2 Appendices Appendix I: List of MCQs with relevant chapters from
Medical Statistics at a Glance (3rd edn) and associated topics Appendix II:
List of structured questions with relevant chapters from Medical Statistics
at a Glance (3rd edn) and associated topics Appendix III: Chapters from
Medical Statistics at a Glance with relevant MCQs and Structured questions