Basic Concepts in Statistics and Epidemiology
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Author(s): T. MacDonald
Publisher: Radcliffe Medical Press
ISBN: 9781846191244
Format: softback
214pp
Price: £21.95, $39.95
Review Date: 22 June 2007
Review: This textbook explains how to use statistical ideas in public health analysis. By following the basic concepts of statistical and probabilistic inference in health research, and the worked examples, the reader should be able to understand and use standard statistical software packages intelligently and sensitively. There are chapters on: describing the mass of data; probability; using the normal curve; testing samples; epidemiology; binomial to Poisson distributions; non-parametric statistics; the Gini coefficient for uneven distributions; correlation; prediction; and analysis of variance (ANOVA).