Michael R. Chernick, Robert H. Friis

Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences

Modern Applications Including Bootstrap

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciencesprovides a basic but thorough introduction to biostatistics and its applications. Stressing practical applications, the book interweaves recent advances in the bootstrap, outliers, and meta-analysis throughout the book in an effort to modernize the subject matter. These are topics not typically covered in the competition. Practical applications are stressed, along with the necessary theory to accompany them, in view of the fact that both an academician and an industrialist have combined their talents and know-how.

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Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians.
_ Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection and treatment.
_ Resampling statistics software is incorporated throughout.
_ Motivating applications are presented in light of honest theory.
_ Plentiful exercises are sprinkled throughout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9780471411376
• ISBN-10: 047141137X
• Artikelnr.: 11415953

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL R. CHERNICK, PhD, is the Assistant Director of Biostatistics at Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc., in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of Bootstrap Methods: A Practitioner's Guide. ROBERT FRIIS, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Science at California State University, Long Beach. He is senior author of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice and has published more than fifty papers related to epidemiology.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. What is Statistics? How is it Applied in the Health Sciences?
Defining Populations and Selecting Samples. Systematic Organization and
Display of Data. Summary Statistics. Basic Probability. The Normal
Distribution. Sampling Distributions for Means. Estimating Population
Means. Tests of Hypotheses. Inferences Regarding Proportions. Categorical
Data and Chi-Square Tests. Correlation, Linear Regression, and Logistic
Regression. One-Way Analysis of Variance. Nonparametric Methods. Analysis
of Survival Times. Software Packages for Statistical Analysis. Postscript.
Appendix A. Percentage Points, F-Distribution (alpha = 0.05). Appendix B.
Studentized Range Statistics. Appendix C. Quantiles of the Wilcoxon
Signed-Rank Test Statistic. Appendix D. X^2 Distribution. Appendix E. Table
of the Standard Normal Distribution. Appendix F. Percentage Points,
Student's t Distribution. Appendix G. Answers to Selected Exercises. Index.

Rezensionen

"...readers will come away with a better understanding of biostatistics..." ( Statistical Methods in Medical Research , Vol.14, No.1, 2005)
"...a good textbook for an introductory course in biostatistics at the advanced undergraduate/beginning graduate level..." ( The American Statistician , Vol. 58, No. 2, May 2004)

"...lucid writing style and numerous real-world examples add to the book s appeal and value...complex subject uniquely accessible..." ( Zentralblatt Math , Vol. 1028, 2004)

"...the book is most successful in meeting the needs of students..." ( Technometrics , Vol. 45, No. 4, November 2003)