Description

This book consists of four parts with 32 chapters adapted for four short courses, from the basic to the advanced levels of medical statistics (biostatistics), ideal for biomedical students. Part 1 is a compulsory course of Basic Statistics with descriptive statistics, parameter estimation and hypothesis test, simple correlation and regression. Part 2 is a selective course onB Study Design and ImplementationB with sampling survey, interventional study, observational study, diagnosis study, data sorting and article writing. Part 3 is a specially curated course ofB Multivariate AnalysesB with complex analyses of variance, variety of regressions and classical multivariate analyses. Part 4 is a seminar course onB Introduction to Advanced Statistical MethodsB with meta-analysis, time series, item response theory, structure equation model, multi-level model, bio-informatics, genetic statistics and data mining.

The main body of each chapter is followed by five practical sections:B Report Writing,B Case Discrimination,B Computer Experiments,B Frequently Asked Questions and Summary, andB Practice & Think. Moreover, there are 2 attached Appendices, Appendix A includes Introductions to SPSS, Excel and R respectively, and Appendix B includes all the programs, data and printouts forB Computer ExperimentsB in addition to theB Tests for ReviewB and the reference answers forB Case DiscriminationB as well asB Practice & Think.

This book can be used as a textbook for biomedical students at both under- and postgraduate levels. It can also serve as an important guide for researchers, professionals and officers in the biomedical field.