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Informationen zum Autor Robert H. Riffenburgh! PhD! advises on experimental design! statistical analysis! and scientific integrity of the approximately 400 concurrent studies at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. A fellow of the American Statistical Association and Royal Statistical Society! he is former Professor and Head! Statistics Department! University of Connecticut! and has been faculty at Virginia Tech.! University of Hawaii! University of Maryland! University of California San Diego! San Diego State University! and University of Leiden (The Netherlands). He has been president of his own consulting firm and performed and directed operations research for the U.S. government and for NATO. He has consulted on biostatistics throughout his career! has received numerous awards! and has published more than 140 professional articles. Klappentext Statistics in Medicine! 3e! offers a unique combination of reference information for practitioners and researchers along with core statistical methods for medical and health care students. It makes medical statistics easy for the non-biostatistician by outlining the common statistical methods used in 90% of medical research and clearly explaining the underlying basics. The book does not require a significant level of statistical knowledge and provides abundant clinical examples and exercises to reinforce concepts. New to this edition are 5 chapters: Plan of the Book! Basic Probability! Interpreting Results! Bayesian Analysis! and Agreement Methods in Reliability and Survey Analysis; 7 chapters reorganized and expanded; and new sections in all chapters! including ROC curves and tests; post hoc power; power analysis for equivalence tests; Markov chains; and Cox Proportional-Hazards Regression. Zusammenfassung Makes medical statistics easy to understand for students! practicing physicians! and researchers. This book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. ...
