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This chapter succinctly describes the main methods and techniques of estimation in inferential biostatistics and their application to the analysis of biomedical questions. With special attention to the study of cancer, this chapter provides a general understanding of the nature and relevance of inferential biostatistical methods of estimation in medicine and biology, and discusses the use in biology and medicine of hypothesis tests, parametric and non parametric estimation, risk ratios, and odds ratios.
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Gutiérrez Diez, P.J., Russo, I.H., Russo, J. (2012). Inferential Biostatistics (I): Estimating Values of Biomedical Magnitudes. In: The Evolution of the Use of Mathematics in Cancer Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2397-3_3
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