Bowers, David,  1938- <br/><br/>
Medical statistics from scratch / 
David Bowers. 
 - Chichester, Eng. :  John Wiley,  c2002. 
 - vi, 207 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Preface. - Introduction. - Pt. I: Some fundamental stuff. 1. First Things First: the Nature of Data. Pt. 2. Describing data. 2. Describing Data with Tables. 3. Describing Data with Charts. 4. Describing Data from Its Distributional Shape. 5. Describing Data with Numeric Summary Values. - Pt. 3. Getting the data. 6. Doing It Right First Time: Designing a Study. - Pt. IV. From little to large: statistical inference. 7. From Samples to Populations: Making Inferences. 8. Probability, Risk, and Odds. - Pt. 5. The informed guess: confidence interval estimation. 9.    Estimating the Value of a Single Population Parameter. 10. Estimating the Difference between Two Population Parameters. 11. Estimating the Ratio of Two Population Parameters. - Pt. 6. Putting it to the test. 12. Testing Hypotheses about the Difference Between Two Population Parameters. 13. Testing Hypotheses about the Ratio of Two Population Parameters. 14. Testing Hypotheses about the Equality of Population Proportions. Pt. 7. Getting up close. 15. Measuring the Association between Two Variables. 16. Measuring the Agreement between Two Variables. Pt. 8. Getting into a relationship. 17. Straight-line Models: Linear Regression. 18. Curvy Models: Logistic Regression. - Appendix. Table of random numbers. - Bibliography. - Index.   Appendix: Table of Random Numbers.    Bibliography.    Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0470844744 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical statistics.<br/>Medicine--Research--Statistical methods
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.727  / BOW