TY  - BOOK
AU  - Portney,Leslie Gross
AU  - Watkins,Mary P.
TI  - Foundations of clinical research: applications to practice 
SN  - 0838526950
AV  - R850 .P83
U1  - 610/.72 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, NJ
PB  - Prentice Hall
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Research Design
KW  - M�edecine
KW  - Recherche
KW  - M�ethodologie
KW  - fast
KW  - Medicina (pesquisa)
KW  - larpcal
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Ch. 1. A concept of research -- Ch. 2. The role of theory in clinical research -- Ch. 3. Ethical issues in clinical research -- Ch. 4. Principles of measurement -- Ch. 5. Reliability -- Ch. 6. Validity of measurements -- Ch. 7. The research question -- Ch. 8. Sampling -- Ch. 9. Experimental control -- Ch. 10. Experimental design -- Ch. 11. Sequential clinical trials -- Ch. 12. Single-subject designs -- Ch. 13. Descriptive and exploratory research -- Ch. 14. Surveys -- Ch. 15. Epidemiology -- Ch. 16. Other research approaches; Ch. 17. Descriptive statistics and measures of variability -- Ch. 18. Statistical inference -- Ch. 19. The t-test -- Ch. 20. Analysis of variance -- Ch. 21. Multiple comparison tests -- Ch. 22. Nonparametric tests for group comparisons -- Ch. 23. Correlation -- Ch. 24. Regression -- Ch. 25. Analysis of frequencies: chi-square -- Ch. 26. Statistical measures of reliability -- Ch. 27. Multivariate analysis -- Ch. 28. Data management -- Ch. 29. Writing a research proposal -- Ch. 30. Reporting the results of clinical research -- Ch. 31. Evaluating research reports -- Appendices
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