1st Edition

Applied Biostatistical Principles and Concepts Clinicians' Guide to Data Analysis and Interpretation

By Laurens Holmes, Jr. Copyright 2018
322 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 52 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The past three decades have witnessed modern advances in statistical modeling and evidence discovery in biomedical, clinical, and population-based research. With these advances come the challenges in accurate model stipulation and application of models in scientific evidence discovery Applied Biostatistical Principles and Concepts provides practical knowledge using biological and biochemical... Read more

Part I. Design Process
Chapter One Basics of Biomedical and Clinical Research
Chapter Two Research Design: Experimental & Non-experimental Design
Chapter Three Population, Sample, ,Biostatistical Reasoning & Probability
Part II. Biostatistical Modeling
Chapter Four Statistical Consideration in Clinical Research
Chapter Five Sample Size and Power Estimations
Chapter Six Single Sample Statistical Inference
Chapter Seven Two Independent Samples Statistical Inference
Chapter Eight Statistical Inference in Three or More Samples
Chapter Nine Statistical Inference Involving Relationships
Chapter Ten Special Topics in Modern Evidence Discovery

Biography

Laurens Holmes Jr. was trained in internal medicine, specializing in immunology and infectious diseases prior to his expertise in epidemiology (cancer)-with- biostatistics (survival analysis). Over the past two decades, Dr. Holmes had been working in cancer epidemiology, control & prevention. His involvement in biostatistical modeling of health research data includes signal amplification and stratification in risk modelling, evidence discovery through effect size and confidence interval (not p value) and evidence-based clinical and translational research through Quantitative Evidence Synthesis (QES).