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A clinician's guide to statistics in mental health / S. Nassir Ghaemi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023Edition: Second editionDescription: 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108814966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 616.890072 G.S.C
Contents:
1. Why data never speak for themselves -- 2. Why you cannot believe your eyes -- 3. Levels of evidence -- 4. Bias -- 5. Randomization -- 6. Clinical trials: improving on clinical experience -- 7. The p-value: uses and misuses -- 8. Forget p-values: the importance of effect sizes -- 9. Understanding placebo -- 10. Understanding confidence intervals -- 11. Observational studies -- 12. The alchemy of meta-analysis -- 13. Bayesian statistics: why your opinion counts -- 14. Causation -- 15. A philosophy of statistics -- 16. Evidence-based medicine: defense and criticism -- 17. Social and economic factors: peer review, funding, and the conventional wisdom -- 18. The new canon of psychopharmacology (STAR*D, STEP-BD, CATIE): how clinical trials are misinterpreted -- 19. False positive maintenance clinical trials in psychiatry -- 20. How to analyze a study -- Appendix: Understanding regression -- Index.
Summary: A fully revised edition of a concise and practical guide to statistics in mental health, designed for clinicians. It simplifies key statistical concepts like effect size, p-values, randomization, and meta-analysis with clinical examples and minimal mathematics.
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Includes index appendix.

1. Why data never speak for themselves -- 2. Why you cannot believe your eyes -- 3. Levels of evidence -- 4. Bias -- 5. Randomization -- 6. Clinical trials: improving on clinical experience -- 7. The p-value: uses and misuses -- 8. Forget p-values: the importance of effect sizes -- 9. Understanding placebo -- 10. Understanding confidence intervals -- 11. Observational studies -- 12. The alchemy of meta-analysis -- 13. Bayesian statistics: why your opinion counts -- 14. Causation -- 15. A philosophy of statistics -- 16. Evidence-based medicine: defense and criticism -- 17. Social and economic factors: peer review, funding, and the conventional wisdom -- 18. The new canon of psychopharmacology (STAR*D, STEP-BD, CATIE): how clinical trials are misinterpreted -- 19. False positive maintenance clinical trials in psychiatry -- 20. How to analyze a study -- Appendix: Understanding regression -- Index.

A fully revised edition of a concise and practical guide to statistics in mental health, designed for clinicians. It simplifies key statistical concepts like effect size, p-values, randomization, and meta-analysis with clinical examples and minimal mathematics.

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