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• Title:Basic biostatistics : statistics for public health practice / B. Burt Gerstman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gerstman, B. Burt.
  
• Published/Created:Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA950 .G383 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical statistics.
  Biometry.
  Public health--Statistical methods.
  
• Medical Subjects: Biometry--methods.
  Public Health Practice.
  
• Description:xvii, 557 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary:A concise introduction to biostatistics for both undergraduates and graduates in various fields of public health. The book will include strong coverage of biostatistical principles and focuses on common types of data encountered in public health and biomedical fields. This text will put equal emphasis on exploratory and confirmatory statistical methods. Sampling, exploratory data analysis, estimation, hypothesis testing and power and precision will be covered through detailed illustrative examples. Techniques will be done by "hand" and with computer (SPSS) in each instance.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780763735807 (alk. paper)
  0763735809 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Part I general concept and techniques
  Types of studies
  Frequency distributions
  Summary statistics
  Probability concepts
  Binomial probability distributions
  Normal probability distributions
  Introduction to statistical inference
  Basics of hypotheses testing
  Basics of confidence intervals
  Part II quantitative response variable
  Inference about a mean
  Comparing independent means
  Comparing several means (one-way ANOVA)
  Correlation and regression
  Multiple linear regression
  Part III categorical response variable
  Inference about a proportion
  Comparing two proportions
  Cross-tabulated counts
  Stratified 2-by-2 tables.