THE USE OF RESTRICTED SIGNIFICANCE TESTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS by David S. Salsburg ( 9781461287629 )

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THE USE OF RESTRICTED SIGNIFICANCE TESTS IN CLINICAL TRIALS

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ISBN 10:

1461287626

ISBN 13:

9781461287629

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

25 December, 2011

Edition:

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992

Series:

Statistics for Biology and Health

Pages:

174

Synopsis:

The reader will soon find that this is more than a "how-to-do-it" book. It describes a philosophical approach to the use of statistics in the analysis of clinical trials. I have come gradually to the position described here, but I have not come that way alone. This approach is heavily influenced by my reading the papers of R.A. Fisher, F.S. Anscombe, F. Mosteller, and J. Neyman. But the most important influences have been those of my medical colleagues, who had important real-life medical questions that needed to be answered. Statistical methods depend on abstract mathematical theorems and often complicated algorithms on the computer. But these are only a means to an end, because in the end the statistical techniques we apply to clinical studies have to provide useful answers. When I was studying martingales and symbolic logic in graduate school, my wife, Fran, had to be left out of the intellectual excitement. But, as she looked on, she kept asking me how is this knowledge useful. That question, what can you do with this? haunted my studies. When I began working in bio- statistics, she continued asking me where it was all going, and I had to explain what I was doing in terms of the practical problems that were being ad- dressed.

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X, 174 p.

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Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

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