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Learn to evaluate and apply statisti Bar Diagram Scatter and Line Diagrams Scatter Diagram Line Diagram Complex Line Diagrams Choice and Cautions in Visual Display of Data Mixed and Three-Dimensional Diagrams Mixed Diagram Box-and-Whiskers Plot Three-Dimensional Diagram Special Diagrams in Health and Medicine Diagrams Used in Public Health Epidemic Curve Lexis Diagram Diagrams Used in Individual Care and Research Growth Charts Area under the Concentration Curve Radar Graph Charts and Maps Schematic Chart Pedigree Chart Spot Map Thematic Choroplethic Map Some Quantitative Aspects of Medicine Some Epidemiological Measures of Health and Disease Epidemiological Indicators of Neonatal Health Birth Weight Apgar Score Epidemiological Indicators of Growth in Children Weight-for-Height and Height-for-Age Z-Scores and Percent of Median Growth Velocity Skinfold Thickness Epidemiological Indicators of Adolescent Health Growth in Height and Weight in Adolescence Sexual Maturity Rating Epidemiological Indicators of Adult Health Physiological Functions Quality of Life Epidemiological Indicators of Geriatric Health Activities of Daily Living Mental Health of the Elderly Reference Values Gaussian and Other Distributions Properties of a Gaussian Distribution Other Distributions Checking Gaussianity: Simple but Approximate Methods Reference or Normal Values Implications of Normal Values Normal Range Disease Threshold Clinical Threshold Statistical Threshold Measurement of Uncertainty: Probability Elementary Laws of Probability Law of Multiplication Law of Addition Probability in Clinical Assessments Probabilities in Diagnosis Forwarding Diagnosis Assessment of Prognosis Choice of Treatment Further on Diagnosis: Bayes Rule Bayes Rule Extension of Bayes Rule Validity of Medical Tests Sensitivity and Specificity Features of Sensitivity and Specificity Likelihood Ratio Positive and Negative Predictivity Predictivity and Prevalence Meaning of Prevalence for Predictivity Features of Positive and Negative Predictivities Combination of Tests Tests in Series Tests in Parallel Gains from a Test When Can a Test Be Avoided?

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Court Judgment Errors in Diagnosis Null Hypothesis Philosophical Basis of Statistical Tests Alternative Hypothesis Errors, P-Values, and Power Type-I Error Type-II Error General Procedure to Obtain P-Value Subtleties of Statistical Significance Assessing Gaussian Pattern Significance Tests for Assessing Gaussianity Initial Debate on Statistical Significance Confidence Interval versus Test of H Equivalence of CI with Test of H Valid Application of Test of Hypothesis Medical Significance versus Statistical Significance Sample Size Determination in Some Cases Sample Size Required in Estimation Setup General Considerations in the Estimation Setup General Considerations in a Testing-of- Hypothesis Setup Nomograms and Tables of Sample Size Thumb Rules Power Analysis Sample Size in Adaptive Clinical Trials Sample Size Reestimation in Adaptive Designs Inference from Proportions One Qualitative Variable Dichotomous Categories: Binomial Distribution Binomial Distribution Large n: Gaussian Approximation to Binomial Poisson Distribution Chi-Square and Its Explanation Degrees of Freedom Cautions in Using Chi-Square Further Analysis: Partitioning of Table Goodness of Fit to Assess Gaussianity Goodness of Fit in Small Samples Proportions in 2.

Structure of 2. Structure in Prospective Study Structure in Retrospective Study Structure in Cross-Sectional Study Chi-Square Test Yates Correction for Continuity Z-Test for Proportions Detecting a Medically Important Difference in Proportions Equivalence Tests Superiority Equivalence and Noninferiority Determining Noninferiority Margin Fisher Exact Test Crossover Design Small n Large n: McNemar Test Small n: Exact Test Matched Pairs Test Criterion Trend in Proportions in Ordinal Categories Two Polytomous Variables Chi-Square Test for Large n Matched Pairs: I.

I Table Three-Way Tables Assessment of Association in Three-Way Tables Log-Linear Models Relative Risk and Odds Ratio Relative and Attributable Risks Large n Risk, Hazard, and Odds Ratios of Risks and Odds Relative Risk RR in Independent Samples RR in the Case of Matched Pairs Attributable Risk AR in Independent Samples AR in Matched Pairs Number Needed to Treat Relative Risk Reduction Population Attributable Risk Odds Ratio OR in Two Independent Samples OR in Matched Pairs Multiple Controls Mantel—Haenszel Procedure Pooled Relative Risk Pooled Odds Ratio and Chi-square Inference from Means Comparison with a Prespecified Mean Student t-Test for One Sample Difference in Means in Two Samples Paired Samples Setup Unpaired Independent Samples Setup Some Features of Student t Effect of Unequal n Difference-in-Differences Approach Analysis of Crossover Designs Test for Group Effect Test for Carryover Effect Test for Treatment Effect Analysis of Data of Up-and-Down Trials Procedure to Test H Two-Factor Design Main Effect and Interaction Effect Repeated Measures Random Effects versus Fixed Effects Sphericity and Huynh—Feldt Correction Bonferroni Procedure Tukey Test Dunnett Test Intricacies of Multiple Comparisons Comparison of Two Groups: Wilcoxon Tests Case I: Paired Data Case II: Independent Samples Two-Way Layout: Friedman Test When Significant Is Not Significant Nature of Statistical Significance Detecting Specified Difference in Mean Equivalence Tests for Means Power and Level of Significance Relationships: Quantitative Data Some General Features of a Regression Setup Dependent and Independent Variables Simple, Multiple, and Multivariate Regression Linear, Curvilinear, and Nonlinear Regressions Linear Regression Curvilinear Regression Nonlinear Relationships Regression through Origin Concept of Residuals General Method of Fitting a Regression Linear Regression Models Adequacy of a Regression— Multiple Correlation in Linear Regression Stepwise Procedure Statistical Significance of Individual Regression Coefficients Validity of Assumptions Choice of Form of Regression Outliers and Missing Values Interpretation of the Regression Coefficients Standardized Coefficients Other Implications of Regression Models Some Issues in Linear Regression Confidence Interval, Confidence Band, and Tests SEs and CIs for the Regression Confidence Band for Simple Linear Regression Equality of Two Regression Lines Difference-in-Differences Approach with Regression Some Variations of Regression Ridge Regression Multilevel Regression Regression Splines Analysis of Covariance Some Generalizations Measuring the Strength of Quantitative Relationship Product—Moment and Related Correlations Multiple Correlation Product—Moment Correlation Statistical Significance of r Intraclass Correlation Serial Correlation Rank Correlation Spearman Rho Assessment of Quantitative Agreement Agreement in Quantitative Measurements Statistical Formulation of the Problem Approaches for Measuring Quantitative Agreement Limits of Disagreement Approach Intraclass Correlation as a Measure of Agreement Relative Merits of the Two Methods Alternative Simple Approach to Agreement Assessment Relationships: Qualitative Dependent Binary Dependent: Logistic Regression Large n Meaning of a Logistic Model Assessing Overall Adequacy of a Logistic Regression Log Likelihood Classification Accuracy Hosmer—Lemeshow Test Inference from Logistic Coefficients Interpretation of the Logistic Coefficients Dichotomous Predictors Polytomous and Continuous Predictors Issues in Logistic Regression Conditional Logistic for Matched Data Polytomous Dependent Nominal Categories: Multinomial Logistic Ordinal Categories Some Models for Qualitative Data and Generalizations Cox Regression for Hazards Classification and Regression Trees Further Generalizations Strength of Relationship in Qualitative Variables Both Variables Qualitative Dichotomous Categories Polytomous Categories: Nominal Proportional Reduction in Error Polytomous Categories: Ordinal Association One Qualitative and the Other Quantitative Variable Agreement in Qualitative Measurements Matched Pairs Meaning of Qualitative Agreement Cohen Kappa Survival Analysis Life Expectancy Life Table Other Forms of Life Expectancy Potential Years of Life Lost Healthy Life Expectancy Application to Other Setups Analysis of Survival Data Nature of Survival Data Types of Censoring Collection of Survival Time Data Statistical Measures of Survival Life Table Method Survival Function Kaplan—Meier Method Using the Survival Curve for Some Estimations Standard Error of Survival Rate Hazard Function Issues in Survival Analysis Comparison of Survival in Two Groups Comparing Survival Rates Factors Affecting Survival: Cox Model Parametric Models Cox Model for Survival Proportional Hazards Sample Size for Survival Studies Simultaneous Consideration of Several Variables Scope of Multivariate Methods Essentials of a Multivariate Setup