Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition, 2017
by Abhaya Indrayan and Rajeev Kumar Malhotra
CRC Press/ Chapman & Hall
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ORIGINAL THOUGHTS IN THE BOOK

 

1. Epistemic and aleatory uncertainties (Ch 1)

2. Biostatistics as a science of managing empirical uncertainties (Ch 1)

3. Indrayan’s smoking index (Ch 9)

4. The concept of positive health (Ch 9)

5. Predictivity based ROC curve (Ch 9)

6. Internationally applicable social classification (Ch 11)

7. Promote myocardial infarction in old age – stop cancer (Ch 11)

8. Indicators of mental health (Ch 11)

9. When significant is not significant (Ch 15)

10. Alternative simple method of assessing agreement (Ch 16)

11. Quality control in a lab. and quality of data and inferences (Ch 20)

12. Statistical fallacies (most praised) (Ch 21)