Essentials of biostatistics in public health /

"Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Fourth Edition provides a fundamental and engaging background for students learning to apply and appropriately interpret biostatistics applications in the field of public health. Many examples are drawn directly from the author's remarkable cl...

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Main Author: Sullivan, Lisa M. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Burlington, Massachusetts : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2023
Edition:Fourth edition.
Series:Essential public health.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Study designs
  • Quantifying the extent of disease
  • Summarizing data collected in the sample
  • The role of probability
  • Confidence interval estimates
  • Hypothesis testing procedures
  • Power and sample size determination
  • Multivariable methods
  • Nonparametric tests
  • Survival analysis
  • Data visualization
  • Careers in biostatistics