Basic Concepts of Biostatistics With R Commander

List of contents

Describing data. Hypothesis testing. Epidemiological study design. Selecting proper statistical tests. Comparing a continuous outcome variable between two independent groups: Student’s t-test and Mann-Whitney U test. Paired-t tests and Wilcoxon’s signed rank tests. Comparing continuous variable between three+ groups: Analysis of Variance, Kruskal-Wallis tests, Friedman tests. Linear regression and correlation analysis. Relative risk, Rate ratio, Odds ratio, Logistic regression. Analysis for disease diagnosis and prognosis: Sensitivity, specificity and receiver-operating-curve (ROC). Survival Analysis. Computing sample size for a clinical research.

Summary

This book will focus on important topics in biostatistics and how to perform hands-on analysis using an easy point-click interface of R-GUI, Rcmdr. This book may be suitable for medical doctors, nurses and personals being involved in a medical research. This book may be considered useful for medical students. Students for biostatistics training may find that this is a good introductory book before learning complex mathematical statistics.

Product details

• Authors: Ayumi Shintani, Ayumi (Osaka City University Shintani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781138035935
• ISBN: 978-1-138-03593-5
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, Biology, life sciences, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics, Epidemiology and Medical statistics