Statistics in Medicine

Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies from conception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step instructions for biostatistical methods from the simplest levels (averages, bar charts) progressively to the more sophisticated methods now being seen in medical articles (multiple regression, noninferiority testing). Examples are given from almost every medical specialty and from dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and health care management. A preliminary guide is given to tailor sections of the text to various lengths of biostatistical courses.

User-friendly format includes medical examples, step-by-step methods, and check-yourself exercises appealing to readers with little or no statistical background, across medical and biomedical disciplinesFacilitates stand-alone methods rather than a required sequence of reading and references to prior textCovers trial randomization, treatment ethics in medical research, imputation of missing data, evidence-based medical decisions, how to interpret medical articles, noninferiority testing, meta-analysis, screening number needed to treat, and epidemiologyFills the gap left in all other medical statistics books between the reader’s knowledge of how to go about research and the book’s coverage of how to analyze results of that research

New in this Edition:

New chapters on planning research, managing data and analysis, Bayesian statistics, measuring association and agreement, and questionnaires and surveysNew sections on what tests and descriptive statistics to choose, false discovery rate, interim analysis, bootstrapping, Bland-Altman plots, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), and Deming regressionExpanded coverage on probability, statistical methods and tests relatively new to medical research, ROC curves, experimental design, and survival analysis35 Databases in Excel format used in the book and can be downloaded and transferred into whatever format is needed along with PowerPoint slides of figures, tables, and graphs from the book included on the companion site, http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780123848642Medical subject index offers additional search capabilities

1. Planning Studies: From Design to Publication

2. Planning Analysis: What Do I Do with my Data?

3. Probability and Relative Frequency Distributions

4. Distributions

5. Descriptive Statistics

6. Finding Probabilities of Error

7. Confidence Intervals

8. Hypothesis Testing: Concept and Practice

9. Tests on Categorical Data

10. Risks, Odds, and ROC Curves

11. Tests on Ranked Data

12. Tests on Means of Continuous Data

13. Multi-Factor ANOVA and ANCOVA

14. Tests on Variability and Distributions

15. Managing Results of Analysis

16. Equivalence Testing

17. Bayesian Statistics

18. Sample Size Estimation and Meta-Analysis

19. Modeling Concepts and Methods

20. Clinical Decisions Based on Models

21. Regression and Correlation

22. Multiple and Curvilinear Regression

23. Survival, Logistic Regression, and Cox Regression

24. Sequential Analysis and Time Series

25. Epidemiology

26. Measuring Association and Agreement

27. Questionnaires and Surveys

28. Methods You Might Meet, But Not Every Day

References and Data Sources

Tables of Probability Distributions