Biostatistics for Oral Healthcare [Hardcover]

Biostatistics for Oral Healthcare offers students, practitioners and instructors alike a comprehensive guide to mastering biostatistics and their application to oral healthcare. Drawing on situations and methods from dentistry and oral healthcare, this book provides a thorough treatment of statistical concepts in order to promote in-depth and correct comprehension, supported throughout by technical discussion and a multitude of practical examples.Chapter 1. Introduction.

1. What Is Biostatistics?.

2. Why Do I Need Statistics?.

3. How Much Mathematics Do I Need?.

4. How to Study Statistics?.

5. Reference.

Chapter 2. Summarizing Data.

1. Raw Data and Basic Terminology.

2. The Levels of Measurements.

3. Frequency Distributions.

Frequency Tables.

Relative Frequency.

4. Graphs.

Bar Graphs.

Pie Charts.

Line Graphs.

Histograms.

Stem and Leaf Plots.

5. Clinical Trials.

6. Confounding Variables.

7. Exercises.

8. References.

Chapter 3. Measures of Central Tendency, Dispersion, and Skewness.

1. Introduction.

2. Mean.

3. Weighted Mean.

4. Median.

5. Mode.

6. Geometric Mean.

7. Harmonic Mean.

8. Mean and Median of Grouped Data.

9. Mean of Two or More Means.

10. Range.

11. Percentiles and Interquartile Range.

12. Box-whisker Plot.

13. Variance and Standard Deviatl##