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by John Pezzullo
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Learn to:
- Understand key statistical concepts as they relate to biological sciences
- Interpret biological and statistical data in any setting
- Score your highest in your biostatistics course
Baffled by biostatistics?
Biostatisticians are charged with finding answers to some of the world's most pressing health questions: How safe or effective are drugs hitting the market today? What causes autism? What are the risk factors for cardiovascular disease? Covering the most relevant topics you'll encounter in a biostatistics course, Biostatistics For Dummies gives you plain-English explanations of important concepts and plenty of examples.
- Back to the basics -- get up to speed on math and statistics concepts, find advice on selecting statistical software, and get an overview of clinical research
- The deal with data -- find out how to collect data properly, summarize it concisely, display it in tables and graphs, and describe its qualities
- Size it up -- grasp the most common statistical techniques for comparing groups: t tests, ANOVAs, chi-square tests, and Fisher Exact tests
- Let's regress -- learn how to test for and quantify the relationship between two or more variables, from a simple straight-line regression to multiple, logistic, nonlinear, and other kinds of regression
- Survive and thrive -- see how to calculate survival curves, test for a difference in survival between two or more groups of subjects, and apply the methods of regression analysis to survival data
Open the book and find:
- Basic math and statistical formulas, concepts, and techniques you need to know
- The big picture of clinical research
- How to summarize and graph data
- The scoop on accuracy, precision, standard errors, and confidence intervals
- Ways to compare groups
- Common distribution functions
- Simple rules for sample-size calculations
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- Title Biostatistics for Dummies
- Author John Pezzullo
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher For Dummies, U.S.A.
- Date 2013-07-29
- Features Index
- ISBN 9781118553985 / 1118553985
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.19 x 7.41 x 0.93 in (23.34 x 18.82 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Biometry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013936422
- Dewey Decimal Code 570.151
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