A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health : measuring truth and uncertainty
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : S Nassir Ghaemi
- ناشر : Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9780511580932
Description
Why data never speak for themselves -- Why you cannot believe your eyes : the three C's -- Levels of evidence -- Types of bias -- Randomization -- Regression -- Hypothesis testing : the dreaded P-value and statistical significance -- The use of hypothesis testing statistics in clinical trials -- The alternative : effect estimation -- What does causation mean? -- A philosophy of statistics -- Evidence-based medicine : defense and criticisms -- The alchemy of meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics : why your opinion counts -- How journal articles get published -- How scientific research impacts practice -- Dollars, data, and drugs -- Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide.
Describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, giving an insight into which statistics to believe - and why.
