Main description:

This book covers all aspects of statistical methods in detail with applications. It presents solutions to the needs of post-graduate medical students, doctors and basic medical scientists for statistical evaluation of data. In present era, dependency on softwares for statistical analysis is eroding the basic understanding of the statistical methods and their applications. As a result, there are very few basic medical scientists capable of analyzing their research data due to lack of knowledge and ability. This book has been written in systematic way supported by figures and tables for basic understanding of various terms, definitions, formulae and applications of statistical methods with solved examples and graphic presentation of data to create interest in this mathematical science.

Contents:

Introduction to statistics.- Collecting statistical data.- Tabulated presentation of data.- Diagrammatic presentation of data.- Graphic presentation of data.- Measures of central tendency.- Measures of dispersion.- Correlation.- Chi-square test ( 2 - test).- Normal curve and sampling distribution.- Tests of significance.- Analysis of variance.- Practice exercises.