A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health - S. Nassir Ghaemi

A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health

Measuring Truth and Uncertainty
Buch | Softcover
166 Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-70958-3 (ISBN)
64,80 inkl. MwSt
Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content. Perfect for the busy health professional who wants to know which statistics to believe - and why.
Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, making it perfect for the busy health professional. Using clear language in favour of complex terminology, limitations of statistical techniques are emphasized, as well as the importance of interpretation - as opposed to 'number-crunching' - in analysis. Uniquely for a text of this kind, there is extensive coverage of causation and the conceptual, philosophical and political factors involved, with forthright discussion of the pharmaceutical industry's role in psychiatric research. By creating a greater understanding of the world of research, this book empowers health professionals to make their own judgments on which statistics to believe - and why.

S. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPH is Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine, and Director of the Mood Disorders and Psychopharmacology Programs, Department of Psychiatry, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Basic Concepts: 1. Why data never speak for themselves; 2. Why you cannot believe your eyes: the three C's; 3. Levels of evidence; Part II. Bias: 4. Types of bias; 5. Randomization; 6. Regression; Part III. Chance: 7. Hypothesis testing: the dreaded p-value and statistical significance; 8. The use of hypothesis testing statistics in clinical trials; 9. The alternative effect estimation; Part IV. Causation: 10. What does causation mean?; 11. A philosophy of statistics; Part V. The Limits of Statistics: 12. Evidence-based medicine: defense and criticisms; 13. The alchemy of meta-analysis; 14. Bayesian statistics: why your opinion counts; Part VI. The Politics of Statistics: 15. How journal articles get published; 16. How scientific research impacts practice; 17. Dollars, data, and drugs; 18. Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide; Appendix. Regression models and multivariable analysis.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 9.7.2009
Zusatzinfo 5 Tables, unspecified; 1 Halftones, unspecified
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 290 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
ISBN-10 0-521-70958-X / 052170958X
ISBN-13 978-0-521-70958-3 / 9780521709583
Zustand Neuware
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