TY - BOOK AU - Peat,Jennifer K. AU - Barton,Belinda AU - Peat, Jennifer K TI - Medical statistics: a guide to SPSS, data analysis and critical appraisal SN - 9781118589939 (pbk.) AV - R853.S7 P43 2014 U1 - 610.285555 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester PB - Wiley-Blackwell KW - Medical statistics KW - Medicine KW - Research KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistics as Topic KW - methods KW - Research Design N1 - Author's names reversed on the first edition; Includes bibliographical references and index; Creating a SPSS data file and preparing to analyse the data -- Descriptive statistics -- Comparing two independent samples -- Paired and one-sample t-tests -- Analysis of variance -- Analyses of longitudinal data -- Correlation and regression -- Rates and proportions -- Risk statistics -- Tests of reliability and agreement -- Diagnostic statistics -- Survival analyses N2 - Offering a holistic approach to the understanding of medical statistics, the authors present the statistical tools required for evidence-based clinical research ER -