TY - BOOK AU - Mattson,D.E. TI - Statistics : difficult concepts, understandable explanations SN - 0865160562 AV - QA276 .12.M67 PY - 1986/// CY - Wauconda PB - Bolchazy KW - Statistics KW - Medical statistics N1 - Includes index; 1. Descriptive statistics. Scope and content of statistics -- Presentation of data -- Summary statistics. 2. Rationale of inferential statistics. Probability -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing. 3. Applications of inferential statistics. Two-sample experiments -- Comparisons of population proportions using chi-square -- Significance tests for variances using chi-square and F distributions -- Comparison of several means -- Correlation and regression -- Analysis of covariance -- Nonparametric statistics -- Study design and interpretation of results ER -