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The Essentials of Biostatistics for Physicians, Nurses, and Clinicians

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I have taught biostatistics in the health sciences and published a book in 2003 with Wiley on that topic. That book is a textbook for upper - level undergraduates and graduate students in the health science departments at universities. Since coming to the Lankenau Institute 17 months ago, I was tasked to prepare a course in biostatistics for nurses and physicians (particularly the hospital residents and fellows that do medical research). I quickly learned that although the material in my book was relevant, it contained too much material and was not in a digestible form for them. I prepared a six - lecture course (1 hour each) for physicians, and a two - lecture course for the nurses. To prevent boredom, I introduced some funny but educational cartoon slides. The course currently exists and has been refi ned as PowerPoint presentations and has been moderately successful.

Content:-

Preface

1. The What, Why, and How of Biostatistics in Medical Research

2. Sampling from Populations

3. Graphics and Summary Statistics

4. Normal Distribution and Related Properties

5. Estimating Means and Proportions

6. Hypothesis Testing

7. Correlation, Regression, and Logistic Regression

8. Contingency Tables

9. Nonparametric Methods

10. Survival Analysis