Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health professionals

Contents include: first things first - the nature of data; describing data with tables; describing data with charts; describing data from its shape; describing data with numeric summary values; doing it right first time - designing a study; from samples to populations : making inferences; probability, risk and odds; estimating the value of a single population parameter ; the idea of confidence intervals; estimating the differences between two population parameters; estimating the ratio of two population parameters; testing hypotheses about the difference between two population parameters; testing hypotheses about the ratio of two population parameters; testing hypotheses about the equality of population proportions - the Chi-squared test; getting up close; measuring the association between two variables; measuring agreement; straight line models - linear regression; curvy models - logistic regression; measuring survival; systematic review and meta-analysis.