Clinical Trials – A Practical Guide to Design, Analysis, and Reporting 1st Edition

Description

The author takes a back-to-basics approach to explain statistics specifically for a medically literate audience. Each article provides essential background information to each topic, explores its meaning, and explains how and when it should be applied. Medical students, statistics students, clinical researchers, pharmaceutical sales representatives Statistics are complicated, but to a large extent, this is a reflection of the way in which they are taught. In this book, Dr Bahkar takes a back-to-basics approach to explain statistics specifically for a medically literate audience. Based on the successful “Practical Issues in Clinical Trial Design” series published in Remedica’s flagship journal Clinical Researcher, and supplemented by key contributions from other leading international experts, each article provides essential background information to each topic, explores its meaning, and explains how and when it should be applied. Readers will gain not only an understanding of the basics of medical statistics but also a critical insight into how to review and evaluate clinical trial evidence.