What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics: What is a p-value anyway_p1 - Softcover

Vickers, Andrew J.

 
9780321629302: What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics: What is a p-value anyway_p1
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0321629302 ISBN 13: 9780321629302
Verlag: Pearson Education (US), 2009

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What is a p-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day.

 

KEY TOPICS: Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us

 

MARKET: For all readers interested in statistics.

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Andrew Vickers, PhD, is an Associate Attending Research Methodologist in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He is active in a variety of fields of cancer research, and also conducts original research in statistical methods, particularly with respect to the evaluation of prediction models. Dr. Vickers has been course leader for the biostatistics course at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 2001, and has taught biostatistics to medical students at Cornell Medical School since 2000. Dr. Vickers received a First Class BA in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Clinical Medicine from the University of Oxford.

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What is a "p"-value Anyway? offers a fun introduction to the fundamental principles of statistics, presenting the essential concepts in thirty-four brief, enjoyable stories. Drawing on his experience as a medical researcher, Vickers blends insightful explanations and humor, with minimal math, to help readers understand and interpret the statistics they read every day. Describing data; Data distributions; Variation of study results: confidence intervals; Hypothesis testing; Regression and decision making; Some common statistical errors, and what they teach us For all readers interested in statistics.

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Verlag
Pearson Education (US)
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0321629302
ISBN 13 
9780321629302
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
224
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