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David Bowers, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UKBest selling author of Statistics from Scratch and Medical Statistics from Scratch.

Allan House, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

David Owens, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, UK

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Preface to the First Edition.

Preface to the Second Edition.

Acknowledgements.

PART I: SETTING THE SCENE: WHO DID WHAT, AND WHY.

1. Some Preliminaries.

2. The Abstract and Introduction.

3. The Objectives.

PART II: DESIGN MATTERS: WHAT TYPE OF STUDY ARE YOU READING ABOUT?

4. Descriptive Studies.

5. Analytic Studies.

6. Intervention Studies.

PART III: THE CAST: FINDING OUT ABOUT THE SUBJECTS OF THE RESEARCH.

7. The Research Setting.

8. Populations and Samples.

9. Identifying and Defining Cases.

10. Controls and Comparisons.

PART IV: ESTABLISHING THE FACTS: STARTING WITH BASIC OBSERVATIONS.

11. Identifying the Characteristics of Data.

12. Summarizing the Characteristics of Data.

13. Measuring the Characteristics of Subjects.

14. Measuring the Characteristics of Measures.

15. Measurement Scales.

PART V ESTABLISHING MORE OF THE FACTS: SOME COMMON WAYS OF DESCRIBING RESULTS.

16. Fractions, Proportions and Rates.

17. Risk and Odds.

18. Ratios of Risk and Odds.

PART VI ANALYSING THE DATA: ESTIMATION AND HYPOTHESIS TESTING.

19. Confidence Intervals for Means, Proportions, and Medians.

20. Confidence Intervals for Ratios.

21. Testing Hypotheses – the p-Value.

PART VII ANALYSING THE DATA: MULTIVARIABLE METHODS.

22. Measuring Association.

23. Measuring Agreement.

24. The Linear Regression Model.

25. The Logistic Regression Model.

26. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

27. Measuring Survival.

PART VIII READING BETWEEN THE LINES: HOW AUTHORS USE TEXT, TABLES AND PICTURES TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY'VE DONE.

28. Results in Text and Tables.

29. Results in Pictures.

30. The Discussion and the Conclusions.

References.

Index.

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