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Title:
Understanding clinical papers
Author:
Bowers, David, 1938-
ISBN:
9780470091302
Edition:
2nd ed.
Publication Information:
Chichester, England : John Wiley & Sons, c2006.
Physical Description:
xii, 232 s. : res. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Some preliminaries -- The abstract and introduction -- The objectives -- Descriptive studies -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of data -- Summarizing the characteristics of data -- Measuring the characteristics of subjects -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measurement scales -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Testing hypotheses - the p-value -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- The linear regression model -- The logistic regression model -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Measuring survival -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and the conclusions.
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