1st Edition
Basic Concepts in Statistics and Epidemiology
224 Pages
by
CRC Press
224 Pages
by
CRC Press
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This book contains a Foreword by Allyson Pollock, Professor and Head, Centre for International Public Health Policy, University of Edinburgh. Healthcare students, practitioners and researchers need a sound basis for making valid statistical inferences from health data. To make the best use of statistical software, it is necessary to understand how probabilistic inference works. This book explains... Read more
Describing a mass of data. A necessary glimpse of probability. Using the normal curve. An approximation to the normal curve. Poisson's solution. Testing samples. Testing small samples. A taste of epidemiology. Non-parametric statistics. For the algebraically innocent. Correlation - a measure of relatedness. The problem of prediction. Introducing ANOVA. A brief introduction to designing a research project.
Biography
Theodore H. MacDonald, Denis Pereira Gray
