A clinician's guide to statistics and epidemiology in mental health measuring truth and uncertainty

• Main Author: Ghaemi, S. Nassir (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2009
• Subjects: Psychiatry > methods; Statistics as Topic > methods; Mental Disorders > epidemiology
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Accessible and clinically relevant, A Clinician's Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health describes statistical concepts in plain English with minimal mathematical content, making it perfect for the busy health professional. Using clear language in favour of complex terminology, l...

Table of Contents:

• Why data never speak for themselves
• Why you cannot believe your eyes : the three C's
• Levels of evidence
• Types of bias
• Randomization
• Regression
• Hypothesis testing : the dreaded p-value and statistical significance
• The use of hypothesis testing statistics in clinical trials
• The better alternative : effect estimation
• What does causation mean?
• A philosophy of statistics
• Evidence-based medicine : defense and criticism
• The alchemy of meta-analysis
• Bayesian statistics : why your opinion counts
• How journal articles get published
• How scientific research impacts practice
• Dollars, data, and drugs
• Bioethics and the clinician/researcher divide