Overview
- Includes only essential concepts in statistical theory or mathematics to describe the clinical importance of statistics
- Provides numerous examples from medical literature to exemplify how statistical techniques are used in practice
- Describes statistical principles commonly used in medical literature but not typically covered in similar books
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides clinical medicine readers with a detailed explanation of statistical concepts using non-technical terms. This allows clinicians and others without specialist statistical knowledge to understand the medical literature where such concepts are used. Many examples from the medical literature are used to exemplify how these concepts are used in practice.
Current books written for clinicians fall into two broad categories. Simple texts that are not designed to cover many important statistical concepts used in the medical literature. Comprehensive texts which cover many statistical principles in detail, including statistical theory, but which are more challenging to read and do not always cover many important statistical techniques used in the medical literature. This book assists in the understanding of these techniques.
Statistics for Clinicians covers such topics in a robust non-technical manner accessible to clinicians and is intended for hospital consultants, junior doctors and general practitioners. Undergraduates in biomedical sciences and medicine may also find some sections valuable.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Owen is an Emeritus Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology and has been a consultant cardiologist for 30 years. Prior to training in medicine he studied mathematics (B.Sc., PhD). He has been chairman of a local Research Ethics Committee and has studied Statistics leading to an M.Sc. in Applied Statistics. He has previously taught on an M.Sc. in Cardiology for medical graduates including giving lectures on statistics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statistics for Clinicians
Authors: Andrew Owen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30904-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-30903-8Published: 03 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-30904-5Published: 02 June 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 154
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Statistics, general, Biostatistics