TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahajan, B K
AU  - B K Mahajan
TI  - Methods in Bio Statistics : for Medical ..... Workers
SN  - 9789352703104
PY  - 2010///
PB  - Jaypee Brothers Medical
N1  - Chapter 1: Introduction 1
•	 Biostatistics 1
Chapter 2: Sources and Presentation of Data 11
•	 Sources of Data 11
•	 Types of Data 13
•	 Collection of Medical Data 15
•	 Presentation of Data 18
•	 Presentation or Illustration
of Quantitative Data 26
•	 Presentation or Illustration
of Qualitative Data 36
Chapter 3: Measures of Location—Averages and
Percentiles 41
•	 Measures of Central Tendency—Averages 42
•	 Measures of Location—Percentiles 56
•	 Types of Variability 65
Chapter 4: Variability and its Measures 65
•	 Measures of Variability 69
Chapter 5: Normal Distributions and Normal Curve 99
•	 Normal Distribution 99
•	 Demonstration of a Normal Distribution 10
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•	 Probability Sampling Techniques 128
•	 Nonprobability sampling techniques 136
Chapter 7: Probability (Chance) 139
•	 Terms used in Probability 140
•	 Basics on Probability 141
•	 Laws of Probability 143
•	 Use of Probability in Assessing Screening Test 155
•	 Other Types of Standard Distribution 160
Chapter 8: Sampling Variability and Significance 167
•	 Sampling Distribution 168
•	 Significance 170
•	 Tests of Significance 183
Chapter 9: Significance of Difference in Means 189
•	 Standard Error of Mean (SeX) 189
•	 Significance of Difference Between
Means of Large Samples by Z Test 193
•	 Significance of Difference Between Means
of Small Samples by Student’s T-Test 201
•	 Significance of Difference Between Means of
more than Two Samples by F-Test and Anova 212
Chapter 10: Significance of Difference in Proportions
of Large Samples 218
•	 Standard Error of proportion (SEP
) 220
Chapter 11: The Chi-square Test 230
•	 Application of chi-square 230
•	 Calculation of 2 value 234
Chapter 12: Correlation and Regression 248
•	 Measures of Relationship
Between Continuous Variables 248
•	 Types of Correlation 250
•	 Characteristics of a Relationship 253
•	 Calculation of Correlation Coefficient
from Ungrouped Series 254
•	 Calculation of Correlation
Coefficient from Grouped Series 259
•	 Regression 260
•	 Calculation of regression coefficient 262
Contents xiii
Chapter 13: Designing and Methodology of an
Experiment or a Study 270
•	 Steps in methodology and designing 271
•	 Summary 280
•	 Presentation Briefs 280
Chapter 14: Demography and Vital Statistics 282
•	 Collection of demographic data 282
•	 Medical certification of the cause of death 291
•	 Compilation and presentation 299
Chapter 15: Measures of Population and Vital Statistics 305
•	 Measures of population 305
•	 Measures of vital statistics 315
Chapter 16: Life Table 342
•	 Uses and application 342
•	 Construction of a Life Table 343
•	 Modified life table 352
Chapter 17: Exercises 359
•	 Answers to Exercises 384
Chapter 18: Computers in Medicine 388
•	 Application of Computers in Biostatistics 389
•	 Application of Computers in Community
or Public Health Care and Management 389
•	 Application of Computers in
Hospital Establishments, Nursing Homes and
Clinics of Academic General Practitioners 390
•	 Use of Computers in Research 392
Chapter 19: Computer Application in Biostatistical
Analysis: An SPSS Manual 394
•	 Basics of MS Excel 394
•	 Data entry in MS Excel 395
•	 Basics of SPSS 398
•	 Starting Spss 399
•	 To Open Data Files 401
•	 To Obtain Frequency Tables 402
Appendices 449
Bibliography 457
Index 459
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