Biomedical Statistics: A Beginner's Guide

By Ruchika Gupta, Sompal Singh, Shakti Kumar Yadav

Book Overview

Section I Introduction

Chapter 1. Applications of Statistics

Chapter 2. Statistical Terms

Descriptive Statistics Inferential Statistics

Chapter 3. Data Types

Categorical Data Numerical Data

Chapter 4. Data Classification

Classification of numerical data Classification of categorical data

Chapter 5. Data Presentation

Pictogram Pie Diagram Bar diagram Line diagram Histogram Frequency polygon Ogive curves Scatter Diagram Regression line Box and whiskers plot:

Chapter 6. Measures of Central Tendency

Mean Median Mode

Chapter 7. Measures of Location

Percentile Decile Quartile

Chapter 8. Measures of Dispersion

Range Interquartile Range Coefficient of quartile deviation Mean Deviation Mean square deviation Variance and standard deviation Coefficient of variance Skewness Kurtosis

Chapter 9. Sampling Methods

Sampling Process Without replacement (WOR) vs with replacement (WR) Probability Sampling Non-probability sampling

Section II Tests for Inference

Chapter 10. Statistical Distribution- Continuous

Normal distribution Standard normal distribution: Student t-distribution: Chi-square distribution: F-distribution: Chapter 11. Sampling Distribution and Hypothesis testing

Confidence interval: Difference in means Concept of Z-statistics Hypothesis Testing:

Chapter 12. Test of Inference- One Sample or two sample mean

One sample: Two sample: Test for homogeneity of variance Two small sized sample- Test for inference: Test for inference of paired samples:

Chapter 13. Test for Inference- Multiple sample comparisons

Concept of sum of squares: ANOVA one way ANOVA two way

Chapter 14. Test for Inference- Categorical Data I

Tabulation of categorical data Testing for significance of individual proportion Testing for significance of difference between two proportions

Chapter 15. Test for Inference- Categorical Data II

1xC tables RxC Table 2x2 table

Chapter 16. Test for Inferen

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9813292962
• ISBN13: 9789813292963
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 287 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"