Medical Statistics: A Hands-on Guide

This book provides a new, friendly and holistic approach to understanding medical statistics. Each chapter provides a clear step- by-step guide to each statistical test with practical instructions on how to generate and interpret the numbers and present the results as scientific tables or graphs. Authors from Westmead Children's, NSW.

1 Data management: preparing to analyse the data.

2 Continuous variables: descriptive statistics.

3 Continuous variables: comparing two independent samples.

4 Continuous variables: paired and one sample t tests.

5 Continuous variables: analysis of variance.

6 Continuous data analyses: correlation and regression.

7 Categorical variables: rates and proportions.

8 Categorical variables: risk statistics.

9 Categorical and continuous variables: test of agreement.

10 Categorical and continuous variables: diagnostic statistics.

11 Categorical and continuous variables: survival analysis