Biostatistics - An Introduction and Conceptual Critique

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: David Baronov, Baronov David
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032328393
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3232839-3
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Epidemiology & medical statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Nursing / Research & Theory, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Biology, life sciences, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, Epidemiology and Medical statistics