A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health

measuring truth and uncertainty

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measuring truth and uncertainty

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Table of Contents

Why data never speak for themselves
Why you cannot believe your eyes : the three C's
Levels of evidence
Types of bias
Randomization
Regression
Hypothesis testing : the dreaded P-value and statistical significance
The use of hypothesis testing statistics in clinical trials
The alternative : effect estimation
What does causation mean?
A philosophy of statistics
Evidence-based medicine : defense and criticisms
The alchemy of meta-analysis
Bayesian statistics : why your opinion counts
How journal articles get published
How scientific research impacts practice
Dollars, data, and drugs
Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
362.2/0422
Library of Congress
RC467.8 .G53 2009, RA790.5

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. ;

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL23229972M
Internet Archive
cliniciansguidet00ghae
ISBN 13
9780521709583
LCCN
2009019273
OCLC/WorldCat
299718470
Library Thing
9248170
Goodreads
6972053

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OL8396801W

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