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    <title>Using and understanding medical statistics</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Matthews, David E.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1948-</namePart>
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    <namePart>Farewell, Vernon T.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Karger</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c1996</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">1996</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd, rev. ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Basic concepts; tests of significance; Fisher's test for 2x2 contingency tables; approximate significance tests for contingency tables; some warnings concerning 2x2 tables; Kaplan-Meier or "actuarial" survival curves; the log-rank or Mantel-Haenszel test for the comparison of survival curves; an introduction to the normal distribution; analyzing normally distributed data; linear regression models for medical data; binary logistic regression; proportional hazards regression; the analysis of longitudinal data; data analysis; the question of sample size; the design of clinical trials; further comments regarding clinical trials; epidemiological applications.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">David E. Matthews, Vernon T. Farewell.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-239) and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Medical statistics</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Biometry</topic>
    <topic>methods</topic>
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  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Statistics</topic>
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