Biostatistics Manual for Health Research: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis

by Nafis Faizi, Yasir Alvi

Overview

**Selected for Doody’s Core Titles® 2024 in Biostatistics**

Biostatistics Manual for Health Research: A Practical Guide to Data Analysis is a guide for researchers on how to apply biostatistics on different types of data. The book approaches biostatistics and its application from medical and health researcher’s point-of-view and has real and mostly published data for practice and understanding. The interpretation and meaning of the statistical results, reporting guidelines and mistakes are taught with real world examples. This is a valuable resource for biostaticians, students and researchers from medical and biomedical fields who need to learn how to apply statistical approaches to improve their research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443185519
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	04/19/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	290
File size:	60 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Nafis Faizi is an Assistant Professor at JN Medical College for the past 7 years. He is also a trainer for Epidemiological Research Unit and a member of Statistics Without Borders and Global Health Training Network. For the past 9 years, he has been conducting regular workshops and training in biostatistics, data analysis and research writing. His primary qualifications are MBBS and MD in Community Medicine from AMU, Aligarh followed by master’s in public health (MPH) from UK. He is also a faculty for International People’s Health University and teaches epidemiology at People’s Open Access Intitiative, UK.

Dr. Yasir Alvi is an Assistant Professor at Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (HIMSR), for two years. Before this, he was a senior resident in the Department of Community Medicine, JN Medical College, AMU, Aligarh for three years. He has been a facilitator of many research training initiatives conducted by Epidemiological Research Unit in AMU and is an alumnus of International People’s Health University. His primary qualifications are MBBS and MD in Community Medicine from AMU, Aligarh.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Biostatistics 2. Data Management and SPSS environment 3. Statistical tests of significance 4. Parametric tests 5. Non-parametric tests 6. Correlation 7. Categorical Variables 8. Testing for Validity 9. Testing for Reliability and Agreements 10. Survival Analysis 11. Multivariate Analysis 12. Annexures

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Presents fundamental knowledge on statistics as applied to medical and biomedical fields

Editorial Reviews

"...provides a manual for the use of biostatistics for health research. It begins with an introduction to biostatistics and data management, and the remainder of the book addresses foundational statistical methods and their application. [A] guide to biostatistics for use by health researchers... [It] is written as a manual to teach biostatistics content in a workshop setting and provide health researchers with a manual for reference on the application and interpretation of biostatistics. [A] great overview of the application and interpretation of biostatistics and would be an excellent reference manual for an experienced health researcher." —©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Amber B. Carriveau, DNP, FNP-BC (United States University)

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