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Lecture Notes on Biostatistics

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DESCRIPTION
Introduction, descriptive statistics, diagnostic tests and method comparison, theoretical distributions and probability, point estimation and confidence interval, hypothesis tests, parameter and parameter free tests, comparing groups, correlation and regression, relation between several variables (ANOVA, multiple regression, logistic regression, factor analysis), analysis of survival times (Kaplan-Meier curves, cox regression, hazard ratio), experimental design, clinical trials, biological and medical literature, microarray analyses
TEXTBOOKS
Douglas G. Altman: Practical Statistics for Medical Research, Chapman&Hall/CRC
Martin Bland: An Introduction to Medical Statistics, Oxford Medical Publications
Harvey Motulsky: Intuitive Biostatistics, Oxford University Press
Lothar Sachs, Jürgen Hedderich: Angewandte Statistik (Methodensammlung mit R), Springer
John Verzani: Using R for Introductory Statistics, Chapman&Hall/CRC