Introductory statistics for the health sciences /
Lise DeShea, Larry E. Toothaker.
- xv, 587 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
'A Chapman & Hall book.'
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The frontier between knowledge and ignorance -- Describing distributions with statistics: middle, spread and skewness -- Exploring data visually -- Relative location and normal distributions -- Bivariate correlation -- Probability and risk -- Sampling distributions and estimation -- Hypothesis testing and interval estimation -- Types of errors and power -- One-sample tests and estimates -- Two-sample tests and estimates -- Tests and estimates for two or more samples -- Tests and estimates for bivariate linear relationships -- Analysis of frequencies and ranks -- Choosing an analysis plan.