Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Biomedical Data

ROBERT F. WOOLSON, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.WILLIAM R. CLARKE, PhD, is a Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Iowa College of Public Health.

• Dedication vPreface to the 1987 Edition xviiPreface to the 2002 Edition xxiAcknowledgment xxiii1 Introduction 12 Descriptive Statistics 93 Basic Probability Concepts 494 Further Aspects of Probability 795 Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing: General Considerations and Applications 1196 Comparison of Two Groups: t-Tests and Rank Tests Introduction 1517 Comparison of Two Groups: Chi-Square and Related Procedures 2178 Tests of Independence and Measures of Association for Two Random Variables 2639 Least-Squares Regression Methods: Predicting One Variable from Another 30710 Comparing More than Two Groups Observations: Analysis of Variance for Comparing Groups 35911 Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Rank Analysis of Variance for Group Comparisons 41712 Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Chi-Square and Related Procedures 44113 Special Topics in Analysis of Epidemiologic and Clinical Data: Studying Association between a Disease and a Characteristic 46114 Estimation and Comparison of Survival Curves 50915 Multiple Linear Regression Methods: Predicting One Variable from Two or More Other Variables 541Appendix 623Topic Index 673

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