eBooks: Mathmatics/Statistics

Storytelling with Data expands upon the lessons taught in Nussbaumer's highly-regarded storytelling with data workshops: the importance of context, choosing the right visual display, identifying and eliminating clutter, drawing your audience's attention to where you want them to pay it, and making the data a pivotal point in the story you want to tell. Lessons are grounded in theory and made accessible and tangible through application to numerous real-world examples. This book will help solve the problem of the 3D exploding pie graph and other ineffective visuals by teaching readers, through theory and example, the basics of effective data visualization. The book teaches readers to: Comprehend the difference between poor and effective visuals and identify examples of each. Understand the importance of context and audience when crafting visual communications. Know what type of visual to use given the information that is to be displayed. Recognize clutter that doesn't add information value and be comfortable cutting it from visuals. Employ pre-attentive attributes to direct attention and prove a visual hierarchy of information. Craft a narrative and know what text is essential to aid the audience's interpretation of information. Leverage the power of story to enable data to resonate and stick with the audience. Synthesize lessons learned to transform a poor data visualization into an effective visual story. The EPUB format of this title may not be compatible for use on all handheld devices.

Now in its fourth edition, Medical Statistics at a Glance is a concise and accessible introduction to this complex subject. Itprovides clear instruction on how to apply commonly used statistical procedures in an easy-to-read, comprehensive and relevant volume. This new edition continues to be the ideal introductory manual and reference guide to medical statistics, an invaluable companion for statistics lectures and a very useful revision aid. This new edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance : Offers guidance on the practical application of statistical methods in conducting research and presenting results Explains the underlying concepts of medical statistics and presents the key facts without being unduly mathematical Contains succinct self-contained chapters, each with one or more examples, many of them new, to illustrate the use of the methodology described in the chapter. Now provides templates for critical appraisal, checklists for the reporting of randomized controlled trials and observational studies and references to the EQUATOR guidelines for the presentation of study results for many other types of study Includes extensive cross-referencing, flowcharts to aid the choice of appropriate tests, learning objectives for each chapter, a glossary of terms and a glossary of annotated full computer output relevant to the examples in the text Provides cross-referencing to the multiple choice and structured questions in the companion Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook Medical Statistics at a Glance is a must-have text for undergraduate and post-graduate medical students, medical researchers and biomedical and pharmaceutical professionals.

Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies from conception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step instructions for biostatistical methods from the simplest levels (averages, bar charts) progressively to the more sophisticated methods now being seen in medical articles (multiple regression, noninferiority testing). Examples are given from almost every medical specialty and from dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and health care management. A preliminary guide is given to tailor sections of the text to various lengths of biostatistical courses.