Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Author |
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Introduction |
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1 Basics of biomedical and clinical research |
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1.2 Why conduct clinical research? |
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1.7 Sample size and power estimations |
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1.8 Screening (detection) and diagnostic (confirmation) tests |
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1.9 Balancing benefits and harmful effects in medicine |
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2 Research design: Experimental and nonexperimental studies |
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2.2 Epidemiologic study designs |
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2.3 Nonexperimental designs |
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2.4 Experimental designs (clinical trials) |
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2.5 Nonexperimental versus experimental design |
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2.6 Measures of disease association or effect |
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2.7 Precision, random error, and bias |
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2.8 Confounding, covariates, effect measure modifier, interaction |
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3 Population, sample, probability, and biostatistical reasoning |
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3.3 Sample and sampling strategies |
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3.4 Biostatistical reasoning |
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3.5 Measures of central tendency and dispersion |
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3.6 Standardized distribution---z score statistic |
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3.7 Basic probability notion |
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3.8 Simple and unconditional probability |
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3.9 Conditional probability |
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3.10 Independence and conditional probability |
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3.11 Probability distribution |
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SECTION II Biostatistical modeling |
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4 Statistical considerations in clinical research |
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4.3 Variables and sources of variation (variability) |
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4.4 Sampling, sample size, and power |
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4.5 Research questions, hypothesis testing, and statistical inference |
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5 Study size and statistical power estimations |
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5.2 Sample size characterization |
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5.3 Purpose of sample size |
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5.4 Sample size computation |
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5.5 Sample size estimation for single- or one-sample proportion hypothesis testing |
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5.6 One-sample estimation of sample size with outcome mean |
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5.7 Two independent samples: Proportions |
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5.8 Two independent group means |
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5.9 Prospective cohort or two-group comparison in clinical trials |
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6 Single sample statistical inference |
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6.2 One-sample group design |
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6.5 Inference from a nonnormal population---One-sample t test |
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6.6 Other types of t tests |
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7 Two independent samples statistical inference |
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7.2 Independent (two-sample) t test and nonparametric alternative (Mann--Whitney u test) |
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7.3 z Test for two independent proportions |
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7.4 Chi-square test of proportions in two groups |
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8 Statistical inference in three or more samples |
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8.2 Analysis of variance (ANOVA)? |
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8.3 Other hypothesis tests based on ANOVA |
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9 Statistical inference involving relationships or associations |
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9.2 Correlation and correlation coefficients |
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9.3 Simple linear regression |
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9.4 Multiple/multivariable linear regression |
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9.5 Logistic regression technique |
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9.6 Model building and interpretation |
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9.7 Survival analysis: Time-to-event method |
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10 Special topics in evidence discovery |
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10.2 Big data and implication in evidence discovery |
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10.3 Reality in statistical modeling of translational and clinical science data |
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10.4 Tabulation versus regression analysis: When and when not to use regression |
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Appendix |
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Index |
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