Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook

This comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods that allow readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it in a medical context, while also providing guidance when critically appraising published literature. It is designed to support the best-selling third edition of www.medstatsaag.com) to demonstrate the application of statistical procedures to real-life research

Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook is the ideal resource to test statistical knowledge and improve analytical and interpretational skills.

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Introduction

Part 1: MCQs

Handling data

Sampling and estimation

Study design

Hypothesis testing

Basic techniques for analysing data

Additional techniques

Part 2: Structured Questions

Part 3: Critical appraisal

Randomised controlled trial: template

Paper 1: a randomised controlled trial

Observational study: template

Paper 2: an observational study

Part 4: Data analysis

Dataset 1 analysed by Stata v11

Dataset 2 analysed using IBM SPSS Statistics v20

Part 5: Solutions

Solutions to MCQs

Model answers for structured questions

Critical appraisal of Paper 1

Critical appraisal of Paper 2

Appendices

Appendix I: List of MCQs with relevant chapters from Medical Statistics at a Glance (3rd edn) and associated topics

Appendix II: List of structured questions with relevant chapters from Medical Statistics at a Glance (3rd edn) and associated topics

Appendix III: Chapters from Medical Statistics at a Glance with relevant MCQs and Structured questions