Studying a Study and Testing a Test: How to Read the Medical Evidence (Core Handbook Series in Pediatrics)
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (785 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0781745764 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Found very very useful; turns out you have to READ it Bruce_in_LA I bought this book 18 months ago and never cracked it til last week. I have worked as a Medicare medical director for five years, and someone should have given each of us this book the day we started. It is a very good survey of how to assess clinical trials. You will not finish this book and then plan trials for "big pharma" nor will you . Molly Hernandez said Five Stars. good. This book is appalling Daniel H. Freeman, Jr. I started to review the book, but could not stand it after reading a few pages. On p 56 interaction is incorrectly defined and is referred as being subject to low power. This is neither correct nor helpful. While tests of interaction may have less power then main effect tests, they can still be performed and are often critical to an analys
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