Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. ix, 241 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This expanded and updated second edition builds upon the success of its predecessor in providing a concise, practical and yet relatively non-technical account of those more sophisticated statistical techniques now used routinely in many medical investigations.
2. The new edition gives additional space to such important topics as the design of medical investigations, regression and logistic regression, the analysis of longitudinal studies, the problems of missing data, and the analysis of observational studies. All chapters include new examples.
3. . Statistical Methods for Medical Investigations is aimed at medical statisticians and other researchers working in the medical field.

Subject

1. Statistics as Topic > methods
2. Medicine > Research > Statistical methods
3. Research

Contents

1. 1. Statistics in Medicine -- 2. The Design of Medical Investigations: Clinical Trials, Observational Studies and Surveys -- 3. Measurement in Medicine -- 4. Statistical Inference -- 5. Regression Analysis -- 6. Crossover Designs, Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance and Analysis of Covariance -- 7. The Analysis of Survival Data -- 8. Reducing the Dimensionality of Multivariate Data: Principal Components Analysis, Factor Analysis and Correspondence Analysis -- 9. Cluster Analysis -- 10. Assignment Techniques -- 11. The Analysis of Time Series -- 12. The Analysis of Observational Studies -- Appendix. Statistical Software.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Rev. ed. of: Statistical methods for medical investigations. 1989.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references 9p. [219]-232) and index.