Introduction to Research Methods and Data Analysis in the Health Sciences (Paperback)

Introduction  1. Evidence-Based Health Research  Section 1: Critical Numbers  2. Descriptive Statistics Part 1: Levels of Measurement and Measures of Central Tendency  3. Descriptive Statistics Part 2: Measures of Dispersion  4. Measures of Association for Categorical Outcomes  5. Measures of Association for Continuous Outcomes  6. Confounding, Effect Modification, Mediation and Causal Inference  Section 2: Critical Appraisal of Existing Research  7. Searching the Literature  8. Randomised Controlled Trials  9. Cohort Studies  10. Case-Control Studies  11. Research Ethics and Data Management  Section 3: Conducting New Research  12. Dissemination and Publication  13. Linear Regression for Continuous Outcomes  14. Logistic Regression for Categorical Outcomes  Appendices