Biostatistics : for medical, nursing and pharmacy students
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Delhi, India :
Prentice-Hall of india ,
c2006
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Biostatistics in health and disease
- 2. Types of data and methods of data collection
- 3. Quality of data and medical tests
- 4. Sources of existing medical data
- 5. Assessment of morbidity
- 6. Indicators of mortality
- 7. Fertility and demography indicators
- 8. Indicators of social and mental health
- 9. Numerical summarization of medical data
- 10. Graphs in health and disease
- 11. Probability and reference range of medical parameters
- 12. descriptive studies-sampling
- 13. Prospective, retrospective and cross-sectional studies
- 14. Experiments and clinical trials
- 15. Standard error and confidence interval
- 16. General principles of statistical tests
- 17. Statistical significance-parametric and non-parametric tests
- 18. Strength of association and chi-square tests
- 19. Regression and correlation
- 20. Sample siza in medical studies