Methods In Biostatistics: For Medical Students And Research Workers (Paperback)

Methods In Biostatistics: For Medical Students And Research Workers
Salient Features
• This book has been written from the perspective of medical people in simple language with very little mathematical formulas and examples.
• A great boon to medical students both undergraduates and postgraduates who want to be self- significant in statistical analysis. It is a book that every medical person and medical college library must possess.
• This edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. In this context the chapter “Computer Application in Biostatistical Analysis: An SPSS Manual” has been added.
• Use of computers for which special chapter has been added in brief has greatly facilitated the analysis of the work done in medical field and biosciences too.
Table Of Contents
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sources and Presentation of Data
• 3. Measures of Location– Averages and Percentiles
• 4. Variability and its Measures
• 5. Normal Distribution and Normal Curve
• 6. Sampling
• 7. Probability (Chance)
• 8. Sampling Variability and Significance
• 9. Significance of Difference in Means
• 10. Significance of Difference in Proportions of Large Samples
• 11. The Chi-square Test
• 12. Correlation and Regression
• 13. Designing and Methodology of An Experiment or A Study
• 14. Demography and Vital Statistics
• 15. Measures of Population and Vital Statistics • 16. Life Table
• 17. Exercises
• 18. Computers in Medicine
• 19. Computer Application inBiostatistical Analysis: An SPSS Manual
• Appendices
• I. Table of Unit Normal Distribution
• II. Table of ‘t’
• III. Table of Variance Ratio
• IV. Table of x
• V. Table of Correlation Coefficient
• VI. Random Number Tables
• VII. International Classification of Disease
• Bibliography
• Index