Biostatistics
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Biostatistics

An Introduction and Conceptual Critique

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Biostatistics

An Introduction and Conceptual Critique

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Without question, biostatistical analysis has contributed to a slew of amazing medical breakthroughs. Yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How is it that biostatistics can both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? What is unique about the content of health and medicine that so plainly reveals such distortions and deformities? Exploring these questions entails, first, a full survey of the tools and techniques of biostatistical analysis aiding medical breakthroughs. This survey must then be paired with a probe into the conceptual premises of these tools and techniques and how they refashion and reconstitute the inherently qualitative content of health and medicine in preparation for its quantification. We must grasp the statistical machinations at play, both technical and conceptual, that contrive to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects. This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2022
ISBN
9781000790528
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Public Health, Administration & Care

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Just What Is an Introduction and Conceptual Critique?
  8. Chapter 2 Regression Analysis: Concepts and Groundwork
  9. Chapter 3 Study Designs and Sampling: A Beginning ā€¦ or the End?
  10. Chapter 4 Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis: Conceptual Matters
  11. Chapter 5 Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis: Technical Steps (1)
  12. Chapter 6 Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis: Technical Steps (2)
  13. Chapter 7 Configurations for Biostatistical Analysis: Technical Steps (3)
  14. Chapter 8 Optimal Sample Sizeā€”or Benign Manipulation, the Good Kind
  15. Chapter 9 Probability: From Chaos to Nice, Orderly Distributions
  16. Chapter 10 And Finally ā€¦ We Can Now Make Sense of Descriptive Statistics
  17. Appendix
  18. Index