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Biostatistics David Baronov

Biostatistics By David Baronov

Biostatistics by David Baronov

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Biostatistical analysis contributes to amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How can biostatistics both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? David Baronov explores this question.

Biostatistics Summary

Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique by David Baronov

- The only textbook that combines an introduction to both the technical operations and conceptual premises of biostatistics
- Details the conceptual consequences of the mathematical premises of biostatistics that distort our understanding of holistic and contextual nature of health and medicine
- Emphasizes the qualitative and subjective decisions that precede any quantitative analysis
- The conceptual implications of biostatistical tools and techniques-such as contriving to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects-apply equally to statistics in general
- Presents univariate, bivariate, and regression analysis through a single common scenario to facilitate student comprehension
- Organizes biostatistical tools and techniques into nine configurations that help frame use and rationale of statistical tests and measures
- Walks the reader through the technical steps for the examples associated with the nine configurations

Biostatistics Reviews

This is a unique and thoughtful approach to the use of statistics within a broader, holistic research endeavor. The text is both sophisticated and accessible. It is clear and even masterful in contextualizing the uses (and misuses) of statistics through an argument that presents statistical reasoning, method of calculation, and an extensive discussion of the conceptual assumptions these tools require in a broader research endeavor. --Paul Fuller, Illinois College

This book takes an innovative and critical approach to teaching biostatistics. The use of variations on a single example (heart rate of high school runners) to illustrate the various statistical techniques is a valuable feature. IT allows students to see the implications of choice of statistical technique better than using different examples for each technique. - Harry Murray, Northern Arizona University

The author has achieved a Goldilocks balance of the conceptual and technical. The level of technical detail is sufficient yet does not overwhelm the reader. The author's dual approach enables the reader to gain a finer understanding of the mathematical underpinning of statistical methods. A notable feature is the use of regular or everyday examples--from athletics, movies, and other aspects of mundane life - showcasing the principles of biostatistics. The approach also favors more retentive learning, underlining the value as a primer or introductory textbook.

--Anand Sridhar, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences - Boston

About David Baronov

David Baronov is Professor of Sociology at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, where his current research interests include the ontology of social science methods and the quantitative/qualitative divide. Previous publications include Conceptual Foundations of Social Science Methods (2012) and The Dialectics of Inquiry across the Historical Social Sciences (2014).

Table of Contents

1. Just What Is an Introduction and Conceptual Critique?

2. Regression Analysis: Concepts and Groundwork

3. Study Designs and Sampling: A Beginning or the End?

4. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Conceptual Interpretations

5. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (1)

6. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (2)

7. Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis - Technical Steps (3)

8. Optimal Sample Size-Or Benign Manipulation, the Good Kind

9. Probability: From Chaos to Nice, Orderly Distributions

10. And Finally... We Can Now Make Sense of Descriptive Statistics

Appendices

Index

Additional information

NLS9781032328386
9781032328386
103232838X
Biostatistics: An Introduction and Conceptual Critique by David Baronov
David Baronov
New
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2022-12-30
284
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