Clinical Biostatistics and Epidemiology Made Ridiculously Simple: Color Edition
About this ebook
Physicians and other health care practitioners shoud not only understand a reserach paper's Abstract and Conclusions sections, but also the Materials and Methods sections. This requires understanding of key biostatistics concepts and the pitfalls of biostatistics.
In evaluating research, the practitioner needs to ask these four questions:
1. Is this the best research design (prospective, retrospective study, etc.)?
2. Is this the best statistical test to analyze the data (t-test, ANOVA, etc.)?
3. What do the results mean (mean, median, mode, standard deviation, SEM, confidence limits, p-values, F statistic, chi-square, etc.)?
4. Are the researchers' conclusions correct?
This book contains the most important points in clinical biostatistics, presented with clinical examples and clear approach to interpreting research papers.
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About the author
Professor, Statistics and Research, Program Chair of Research and Statistics, Argosy University, Sarasota FL.
A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, is a researcher, physician, teacher, computer programmer, writer, musician/composer, and past President of the Medmaster Publishing Company for 40 years. Dr. Goldberg has published numerous medical and scientific papers through research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, New York Medical College and the University of Miami School of Medicine. He has authored 20 books in a diversity of medical areas, including textbooks of Anatomy, Physiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Neurology, Consciousness, Ophthalmology, Hematology, and Computer Programming, as well as many interactive computer programs on various medical topics, including Atlas of Microbiology and Atlas of Human Diseases. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, where he taught medical students for 25 years. His reputation is that of an educator who can simplify complex topics. He received the George Paff Most Outstanding Professor Teaching Award11 times at the U of M and was invited in 2004 to be the keynote speaker at the medical school graduation commencement at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis for his work in medical education. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Medmaster Publishing Company.
