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    Essential statistics for the pharmaceutical sciences / Philip Rowe.

    • Title:Essential statistics for the pharmaceutical sciences / Philip Rowe.
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    • Author/Creator:Rowe, Philip.
    • Published/Created:Chichester ; Mississauga, ON : John Wiley & Sons, ©2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Drugs--Research--Statistical methods.
      Pharmacology--Statistical methods.
      Statistics.
    • Medical Subjects: Pharmacology--methods.
    • Description:xx, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
    • Notes:Includes index.
    • ISBN:9780470034705 (cloth : alk. paper)
      9780470034682 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Pt. 1. Data types
      1. Data types
      Pt. 2. Interval-scale data
      2. Descriptive statistics
      3. normal distribution
      4. Sampling from populations - the SEM
      5. Ninety-five per cent confidence interval for the mean
      6. two-sample t-test (1). Introducing hypothesis tests
      7. two-sample t-test (2). The dreaded P value
      8. two-sample t-test (3). False negatives, power and necessary sample sizes
      9. two-sample t-test (4). Statistical significance, practical significance and equivalence
      10. two-sample t-test (5). One-sided testing
      11. What does a statistically significant result really tell us?
      12. paired t-test - comparing two related sets of measurements
      13. Analyses of variance - going beyond t-tests
      14. Correlation and regression - relationships between measured values
      Pt. 3. Nominal-scale data
      15. Describing categorized data
      16. Comparing observed proportions - the contingency chi-square test
      Pt. 4. Ordinal-scale data
      17. Ordinal and non-normally distributed data. Transformations and non-parametric tests
      Pt. 5. Some challenges from the real world
      18. Multiple testing
      19. Questionnaires
      Pt. 6. Conclusions
      20. Conclusions.
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