Basic biostatistics for geneticists and epidemiologists
[Book]
:a practical approach
/ Robert C. Elston, William D. Johnson
Chichester, U.K.
: John Wiley & Sons,
, 2008.
x, 373 p., ill.; 26 cm.
Language: انگلیسی
Print
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the role and relevance of statistics, genetics and epidemiology in medicine -- Populations, samples, and study design -- Descriptive statistics -- The laws of probability -- Random variables and distributions -- Estimates and confidence limits -- Significance tests and tests of hypotheses -- Likelihood ratios, Bayesian methods and multiple hypotheses -- The many uses of chi-square -- Correlation and regression -- Analysis of variance and linear models -- Some specialized techniques -- Guides to a critical evaluation of published reports.