Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data

Descriptive Statistics; Basic Probability Concepts; Further Aspects of Probability for Statistical Inference: Sampling, Probability Distributions, and Sampling Distributions; Confidence Intervals and Hypotheses Testing: General Considerations and Applications; Comparison of Two Groups: t-Tests and Rank Tests; Comparison of Two Groups: Chi-Square and Related Procedures; Tests of Independence and Measures of Association for Two Random Variables; Least-Squares Regression Methods: Predicting One Variable from Another; Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Analysis of Variance for Comparing Groups; Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Rank Analysis of Variance for Group Comparisons; Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Chi-Square and Related Procedures; Special Topics in Analysis of Epidemiologic and Clinical Data: Studying Association between a Disease and a Characteristic; Estimation and Comparison of Survival Curves; Appendix; Index