Medical Statistics Basics and Identification of Typical Errors

Author: Hu Liangping
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book comprehensively reveals the problems in the application of statistics and proposes practical solutions and recommendations. It details strategies for learning statistics, the essential basic knowledge, and common descriptive statistical analysis methods and hypothesis testing methods. These methods include "data types, rates, percentiles, average indicators, variation indicators, the combined application of average and variation indicators, statistical tables and graphs, concepts of probability and probability distribution, common discrete random variable probability distributions, common continuous random variable probability distributions, hypothesis testing and its applications, rational selection of statistical analysis methods, common quantitative and qualitative data analysis methods, correlation and regression analysis methods, and comprehensive data analysis methods." The book also selects over 100 representative cases from more than 2,000 publications, providing insightful analyses and clarifications of the misuse and abuse of statistics. These contents will help people reduce common errors in statistical application and enhance their ability to correctly apply statistical analysis methods to solve practical research problems. This book can serve as a reference for learning common statistical analysis methods, as a "mirror" for identifying misuse and abuse of statistics, and as a methodology book for learning, teaching, and skillfully applying statistics.