Details criticcal stages of planning, conducting, and interpreting data from health investigations in clinical, laboratory, or field settings that promote reliable results from conceptualization to conclusion.

Table of Contents

Medical uncertainties; architecture of medical studies -designs to control uncertainties; architecture of medical studies - sampling and data collection; numerical methods to represent variation; presentation of variation by figures; quantitativeaspects of medical decisions; measurement of community health and survival analysis; confidence intervals and principles of tests of significance; inference from proportions; inference from means; relationship and agreement; simultaneous consideration ofseveral variables; quality considerations; statistical fallacies; appendix 1 - statistical software; appendix 2 - some statistical tables.