Statistical Reasoning in Medicine The Intuitive P-Value Primer /

• Main Author: Moyé, Lemuel A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2006.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Epidemiology.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

Lowers the Learning Curve for Physicians and Researchers! The successful Statistical Reasoning in Medicine: The Intuitive P-value Primer, with its novel emphasis on patient and community protection, illustrated the correct use of statistics in health care research for healthcare workers. Through cle...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• The Basis of Statistical Reasoning in Medicine
• Search Versus Research
• A Hypothesis-Testing Primer
• Mistaken Identity: P-values in Epidemiology
• Shrine Worship
• P-values, Power, and Efficacy
• Scientific Reasoning, P-values, and the Court
• One-Sided Versus Two-Sided Testing
• Multiple Testing and Combined Endpoints
• Subgroup Analyses
• P-values and Regression Analyses
• Bayesian Analysis: Posterior P-values.