Short description
This conceptually-based introduction to statistical procedures prepares public health and life sciences students to conduct and evaluate research in the biological and public health sciences. The authors illustrate that statistics is more than just "maths".
Long description
This conceptually-based introduction to statistical procedures prepares public health and life sciences students to conduct and evaluate research in the biological and public health sciences. The authors illustrate that statistics is more than just "maths" - it's a viable field that has hundreds of applications and uses in the real world. The authors rely heavily on the book's graphics and the use of computers to help students make the calculations, giving them more time to concentrate on and learn the concepts.
Review
I like the approach taken by these authors. The data examples are timely and fit well into a Public Health format...The statistical graphics are well handled in this text.
Table of contents
- Data
- numerical summary measures
- rates and standardization
- life tables
- probability
- theoretical probability distributions
- sampling distribution of the mean
- confidence intervals
- hypothesis testing
- comparison of two means
- analysis of variance
- nonparametric methods
- inference on proportions
- contingency tables
- multiple x tables
- correlation
- simple linear regression
- multiple regression
- logistic regression
- survival analysis
- sampling theory
- Appendices
- tables
- data sets
- solutions to selected exercises