Table of Contents
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.
