Rao, Poduri S.R.S.
Statistical Methodologies with Medical Applications
This book presents the methodology and applications ofa range ofimportant topics in statistics, and is designed forgraduate students in Statistics and Biostatistics and for medical researchers.Illustrations and more than ninety exercises with solutions are presented. They are constructed from the research findings of the medical journals, summary reports of the Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO), and practical situations. The illustrations and exercises are related to topics such as immunization, obesity, hypertension, lipid levels, diet and exercise, harmful effects of smoking and air pollution, and the benefits of gluten free diet.
Thisbook can be recommended for a one or two semester graduate level course forstudents studying Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Health Sciences. Itwill also be useful asa companion for medical researchers and research oriented physicians.
Keywords: Statistical methods for estimation and tests of hypotheses; Statistical tests of hypotheses for medical and health; related research; Regression and correlation; and logistic regression; Analysis of Variance and Covariance; One and two way fixed and random effects models; Chi-square tests; Meta-analysis through the random effects model; Bootstrap confidence limits; Survival analysis and the Kaplan-Meir estimation; Nonparametric methods for medical research, Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Medical Statistics & Epidemiology, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
- Author(s)
- Rao, Poduri S.R.S.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 288 pages
- Category
- Medicine, Health Care, Mode
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781119258520
- Printed ISBN
- 9781119258490