Table of Contents
1 Biostatistics and clinical practice 1
2 How to summarize data 11
3 How to test for differences between groups 40
4 The special case of two groups : the t test 73
5 How to analyze rates and proportions 126
6 What does "not significant" really mean? 179
7 Confidence intervals 219
8 How to test for trends 253
9 Experiments when each subject receives more than one treatment 321
10 Alternatives to analysis of variance and the t test based on ranks 363
11 How to analyze survival data 413
12 What do the data really show? 444
App Power charts 472
INTRODUCTION
Presents the practical areas of statistics in terms of their
relevance to medical and life science applications
Available alone or with CD-ROM containing 30 different kinds of
statistical analyses
CD-ROM also available alone
DESCRIPTION
You'll start with the basics, including analysis of variance and the
t test, then advance to a multiple comparison testing, contingency
tables, regression, and more. Examples from the current literature
illustrate key concepts throughout.
More on multiple comparison testing, including the Holm test
