文档介绍：Medical
Statistics
A Guide to Data Analysis
and Critical Appraisal
Jennifer Peat
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University
of Sydney and Senior Hospital Statistician, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, The
Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Belinda Barton
Head of Children’s Hospital Education Research Institute (CHERI) and
Psychologist, ics Research Unit, The Children’s Hospital at
Westmead, Sydney, Australia
Foreword by Martin Bland, Professor of Health Statistics at the University of
York
Medical Statistics
A Guide to Data Analysis and Critical Appraisal
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First edition 2005
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Peat, Jennifer K.
Medical statistics: a guide to data analysis and critical appraisal / by Jennifer
Peat and Belinda Barton. – 1st ed.
p. ; cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7279-1812-3
ISBN-10: 0-7279-1812-5
1. Medical statistics. 2. Medicine–Research–Statistical methods.
I. Barton, Belinda. II. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Statistics–methods. 2. Research Design. WA 950 P363m 2005]
2005
610.727–dc22 2005000168