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This book contains all statistical tests that are relevant to starting clinical investigators. It begins with standard deviations and t-tests, the basic tests for the analysis of continuous data. Next, non-parametric tests are reviewed. They are, particularly, important to investigators whose affection towards medical statistics is little, because they are universally applicable, i.e., irrespective of the spread of the data. Then, confidence intervals and equivalence testing as methods based on confidence intervals are explained.
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Cleophas, T.J., Zwinderman, A.H. (2011). Introduction. In: Statistical Analysis of Clinical Data on a Pocket Calculator. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1211-9_1
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