Medical Statistics Made Simple: An Easy-to-Go Guide for Medical Researchers
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Medical Statistics Made Simple: An Easy-to-Go Guide for Medical Researchers

Collective authorNeucitePress Board of Editors

NeucitePress ·English

Description

A practical, jargon-light guide to biostatistics for clinicians and medical researchers. It walks through data types, descriptive and inferential statistics, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, diagnostic test accuracy, survival analysis, and clinical trial design, building toward the skills needed to plan a study, choose the right test, and write a defensible statistics section — closing with a pre-submission statistical checklist.
22Chapters
1Contributors

Contents 22 chapters

  1. 1
    Why Medical Researchers Need Statistics NeucitePress Board of Editors
    Abstract
    Chapter 1 introduces the rationale for statistical training in medical research. Using a blood pressure comparison between two drugs as a worked example, the chapter distinguishes data, information, and evidence, and describes how each level requires specific statistical methods. Evidence is cited that manuscripts submitted without statistical input are more likely to be rejected without external review, and that a substantial proportion of studies sent for statistical review use an inappropriate analysis. The chapter presents statistics as integral to study design, analysis, interpretation, and reporting, rather than as a step applied only after data collection. A summary table separates raw data, descriptive information, and tested evidence for the same dataset. The chapter concludes with a single reportable sentence documenting the effect size, confidence interval, and P value for the example comparison, and establishes the framework used throughout the remaining chapters.
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  1. 2Types of Medical Data
  2. 3Descriptive Statistics
  3. 4Normality and Data Distribution
  4. 5P-value, Confidence Interval, and Effect Size
  5. 6Choosing the Right Statistical Test
  6. 7Comparing Two Independent Groups
  7. 8Comparing Paired or Before-After Data
  8. 9Comparing More Than Two Groups
  9. 10Categorical Data Analysis
  10. 11Correlation
  11. 12Linear Regression
  12. 13Logistic Regression
  13. 14Diagnostic Test Accuracy
  14. 15Survival Analysis
  15. 16Sample Size and Power
  16. 17Clinical Trials and Randomization
  17. 18Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
  18. 19Writing the Statistical Methods Section
  19. 20Tables, Figures, and Result Presentation
  20. 21Common Statistical Mistakes in Medical Papers
  21. 22Statistical Checklist Before Journal Submission

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Bibliographic record

  • TitleMedical Statistics Made Simple: An Easy-to-Go Guide for Medical Researchers
  • Collective authorNeucitePress Board of Editors
  • PublisherNeucitePress
  • KeywordsBiostatistics; medical research; statistical analysis; study design
  • SubjectMedical statistics
  • Extent22 chapters
  • LanguageEnglish