01510nam a22002297a 4500 OSt 20240423133238.0 230920b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780367708153 DSSC Cir./614.4/St491 Stewart, Antony 9890 Basic statistics and epidemiology : a practical guide / Antony Stewart Fifth edition London : CRC Press, 2022 xi, 204 pages ; 25 cm. Includes appendices, references and index. Contents: What are statistics? -- Population and samples -- Random sampling -- Presenting data -- Frequencies, percentages, proportions and rates -- Types of data -- Mean, median and mode -- Centiles -- Standard deviation -- Standard error -- Normal distribution -- Confidence intervals -- Probability -- Hypothesis tests and p-values -- The t-tests -- Data checking -- Parametric and non-parametric tests -- Correlation and linear regression -- Analysis of variance and some other types of regression -- Chi-squared test -- Statistical power and sample size -- Effect size -- What is epidemiology? -- Bias and confounding -- Measuring disease frequency -- Measuring association in epidemiology -- Cross-sectional studies -- Questionnaires -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Randomised controlled trials -- Screening -- Evidence-based healthcare. Statistics 4174 Epidemiologic methods. 6369 ddc BK 6979 6979 0 0 ddc 0 0 CIR SPMT-CAS SPMT-CAS PROC 2023-12-06 Mindtools 0 Cir./614.4/St491 009540 2023-09-20 00:00:00 2023-09-20 BK