Chapter
A Primer on Biostatistics
Abstract
There are several measures of disease frequency that are used in the epidemiological and medical literature. A perfect diagnostic test would always identify patients as positive if they have the disease and would always be negative in patients without a disease. Descriptive statistics are used to summarise and describe distributions of data. While traditional methods use a test and/or a diagnostic tool to predict a disease state and/or outcome, …
Authors
Shih AW; Li N; Montemayor C; Heddle NM
Book title
Practical Transfusion Medicine
Pagination
pp. 590-608
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
July 27, 2022
DOI
10.1002/9781119665885.ch49