Main description:

Basic Epidemiology and Biostatistics: A Practical Guide integrates biostatistics, epidemiology and their applications to public health, clinical and social science projects. The book describes the role of epidemiological methods through study design and project execution, optimum interpretation of statistical techniques, and the clinical/public health significance of the results. The book also provides an analysis of statistical software outcomes and their interpretations, includes guidance for critical evaluation of published scientific reports, and provides technical aspects for decision making and research communication.

This book will help public health, health care, and biomedical researchers plan their research, execute plans, create in-depth analyses of their data, and present outputs from statistical testing.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Research Methodology
3. Study Designs
4. Sampling
5. Data handling
6. Ethics in biosciences
7. Computation of relevant data
8. Hypothesis testing
9. Interpretation of data
10. Presentation of data
11. Scientific communication
12. Manuscript review and major mistakes in interpretation of data
13. Statistical Packages in Data analysis