Essential statistics for the pharmaceutical sciences /

• Main Author: Rowe, Philip (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, [2015]
• Edition: Second edition.
• Subjects: Drugs > Research > Statistical methods.; Pharmacology > Statistical methods.; MEDICAL / Pharmacology; Research Design.; Statistics as Topic.; Pharmacology > methods.; Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

• Data types
• Data presentation
• Descriptive statistics for interval scale data
• The normal distribution
• Sampling from populations. the standard error of the mean
• 95% confidence interval for the mean and data transformation
• The two-sample t-test (1): introducing hypothesis tests
• The two-sample t-test (2): the dreaded P value
• The two-sample t-test (3): false negatives, power and necessary sample sizes
• The two-sample t-test (4): statistical significance, practical significance and equivalence
• The two-sample t-test (5): one-sided testing
• What does a statistically significant result really tell us?
• The paired t-test: comparing two related sets of measurements
• Analyses of variance: going beyond t-tests
• Correlation and regression relationships between measured values
• Analysis of covariance
• Describing categorised data and the goodness of fit chi-square test
• Contingency chi-square, Fisher's and McNemar's tests
• Relative risk, odds ratio and number needed to treat
• Logistic regression
• Ordinal and non-normally distributed data. transformations and non-parametric tests
• Measures of agreement
• Survival analysis
• Multiple testing
• Questionnaires.