Biostatistics : The Bare Essentials

Abstract

Section 1: THE NATURE OF DATA AND STATISTICS 1. The Basics 2. Looking at the Data: A First Look at Graphing Data 3. Describing the Data with Numbers: Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion 4. The Normal Distribution 5. Probability 6. Elements of Statistical Inference C.R.A.P. Detectors Section 2: ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE 7. Comparing Two Groups: The t-Test 8. More than Two Groups: One-Way ANOVA 9. Factorial ANOVA 10. Two Repeated Observations: The Paired t-Test and Alternatives 11. Repeated Measures ANOVA 12. Multivariate ANOVA (MANOVA) C.R.A.P. Detectors Section 3: REGRESSION AND CORRELATION 13. Simple Regression and Correlation 14. Multiple Regression 15. Logistic Regression 16. Advanced Topics in Regression and ANOVA 17. Measuring Change 18. Principal Components and Factor Analysis: Fooling Around with Factors 19. Structural Equation Modeling C.R.A.P. Detectors Section 4: NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS 20. Tests of Significance for Categorical Frequency Data 21. Measures of Association for Categorical Data 22. Tests of Significance for Ranked Data 23. Measures of Association for Ranked Data 24. Life Table (Survival) Analysis C.R.A.P. Detectors Section 5: REPRISE 25. Screwups, Oddballs, and other Vagaries of Science: Locating Outliers, Handling Missing Data, and Transformations 26. Putting It All Together Test Yourself (Being a Compendium of Questions and Answers) Answers to Chapter Exercises References and Further Readings Unabashed Glossary Appendices