Medical statistics from scratch : an introduction for health professionals / David Bowers.

Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, [2008], ©2008.

x, 284 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276) and index.

Some fundamental stuff -- First things first : the nature of data -- Describing data with tables -- Describing data with charts -- Describing data from its distributional shape -- Describing data with numeric summary values -- Doing it right first time : designing a study -- From samples to populations : making inferences -- Chance would be a fine thing - probability, risk and odds -- Estimating the value of a single population parameter -- 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 two or more proportions -- Measuring the association between two variables -- Measuring the agreement between two variables -- Straight-line models - linear regression -- Curvy models - logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review and meta-analysis.