Biostatistics and Epidemiology A Primer for Health Professionals - Wassertheil-Smoller, Sylvia; SpringerLink (Online service) (New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1995)
1. The Scientific Method -- 2. A Little Bit of Probability -- 3. Mostly about Statistics -- 4. Mostly about Epidemiology -- 5. Mostly about Screening -- 6. Mostly about Clinical Trials -- 7. Mostly about Quality of Life -- Postscript A Few Parting Comments on the Impact of Epidemiology on Human Lives -- Appendix A Critical Values of Chi-Square, Z, and t -- Appendix B Fisher's Exact Test -- Appendix C Kruskal-Wallis Nonparametric Test to Compare Several Groups -- Appendix D How to Calculate a Correlation Coefficient -- Appendix E Age-Adjustment -- Appendix F Confidence Limits on Odds Ratios -- Appendix G Determining Appropriateness of Change Scores -- References -- Suggested Readings.
Keywords: Biostatistics; Epidemiology; Statistics .; Biostatistics; Epidemiology; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences