TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elston,Robert C.
AU  - Johnson,William Davis
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - Basic biostatistics for geneticists and epidemiologists: a practical approach 
SN  - 9780470740781
AV  - R853.S7 E48 2008eb
U1  - 610.72 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Chichester, U.K.
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Medical statistics
KW  - Medical genetics
KW  - Statistical methods
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Biometry
KW  - methods
KW  - Data Collection
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
KW  - Genetics, Medical
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Research
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Anyone who attempts to read genetics or epidemiology research literature needs to understand the essentials of biostatistics. This book, a revised new edition of the successful Essentials of Biostatistics has been written to provide such an understanding to those who have little or no statistical background and who need to keep abreast of new findings in this fast moving field. Unlike many other elementary books on biostatistics, the main focus of this book is to explain basic concepts needed to understand statistical procedures. This Book:.:.; Surveys basic statistical methods used in the gen
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470740781
ER  -