Medical Uses of Statistics

Preface -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Origins of Chapters -- Introduction -- SECTION I -- BROAD CONCEPTS AND ANALYTIC TECHNIQUES -- Chapter 1 -- Statistical Concepts Fundamental to Investigations /Lincoln E. Moses -- Chapter 2 -- Some Uses of Statistical Thinking /John C. Bailar III -- Chapter 3 -- Use of Statistical Analysis in the New England Journal of Medicine /John D. Emerson and Graham A. Colditz -- SECTION II DESIGN -- Chapter 4 -- Designs for Experiments—Parallel Comparisons of Treatment /Philip W. Lavoriy Thomas A. Louis, John C. BailarIIIy and Marcia Polansky -- Chapter 5 -- Crossover and Self-Controlled Designs in Clinical Research /Thomas A. Louis, Philip W. Lavoriy John C. BailarIIIy and Marcia Polansky -- Chapter 6 -- Studies without Internal Controls John C. BailarIIIy /Thomas A. Louis, Philip W. Lavoriy and Marcia Polansky -- Chapter 7 -- The Series of Consecutive Cases as a Device for Assessing Outcomes of Interventions /Lincoln E. Moses -- Chapter 8 -- A Classification for Biomedical Research Reports /John C. Bailar III, Thomas A. Louis, Philip W. Lavori, and Marcia Polansky -- SECTION III ANALYSIS -- Chapter 9 -- Decision Analysis /Stephen G. Pauker and Jerome P. Kassirer -- Chapter 10 -- PValues /James H. Ware, Frederick Mosteller, Fernando Delgado, Christl Donnelly, and Joseph A. Ingelfinger -- Chapter 11 -- Simple Linear Regression in Medical Research /Katherine Godfrey -- Chapter 12 -- Comparing the Means of Several Groups /Katherine Godfrey -- Chapter 13 -- Analyzing Data from Ordered Categories /Lincoln E. Moses, John D. Emerson, and Hossein Hosseini -- Chapter 14 -- Statistical Analysis of Survival Data /Stephen Lagakos -- Chapter 15 -- Contingency Tables in Medical Studies /Daniel Zelterman and Thomas A. Louis -- SECTION IV COMMUNICATING RESULTS -- Chapter 16 -- Guidelines for Statistical Reporting in Articles of Medical Journals /John C. Bailar III and Frederick Mosteller -- Chapter 17 -- Reporting on Methods in Clinical Trials /Rebecca DerSimonian, L. Joseph Charettey Bucknam McPeek, and Frederick Mosteller -- Chapter 18 -- Statistical Consultation in Clinical Research: A Two-Way Street /Lincoln E. Moses and Thomas A. Louis -- Chapter 19 -- The Importance of Beta, the Type II Error, and Sample Size in the Design and Interpretation of the Randomized Controlled Trial: Survey of Two Sets of “Negative” Trials /Jennie A. Freiman, Thomas C. Chalmers, Harry Smith, Jr.y and Roy R. Kuebler -- Chapter 20 -- Writing about Numbers /Frederick Mosteller -- SECTION V REVIEWS AND META-STUDIES -- Chapter 21 -- Medical Technology Assessment /John C. Bailar III and Frederick Mosteller -- Chapter 22 -- Combining Results from Independent Investigations: Meta-Analysis in Clinical Research /Katherine Taylor Halvorsen, Elisabeth Burdick, Graham A. Colditz, Howard S. Frazier, and Frederick Mosteller -- Chapter 23 -- Meta-Analyses of Randomized Control Trials: An Update of the Quality and Methodology /Henry S. Sacks, Jayne Berrier, Dinah Reitman, Daniel Pagano, and Thomas C. Chalmers -- INDEX.