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Practical Statistics for Medical Research
Abstract
Practical Statistics for Medical Research is a problem-based text for medical researchers, medical students, and others in the medical arena who need to use statistics but have no specialized mathematics background. The author draws on twenty years of experience as a consulting medical statistician to provide clear explanations to key statistical concepts, with a firm emphasis on practical aspects of designing and analyzing medical research. Using real data and including dozens of interesting data sets, this bestselling text gives special attention to the presentation and interpretation of results and the many real problems that arise in medical research.
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“The interpretation of the Cohen kappa coefficient was based on the categories developed by Douglas Altman: 0.00-0.20 (poor), 0.21-0.40 (fair), 0.41-0.60 (moderate), 0.61-0.80 (good), and 0.81-1.00 (very good) [56,57].”
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“Interrater reliabilities (AC1) ranged from low strengths of agreement for anxiety disorders (−0.09 to 0.15) to moderate-to-good strengths of agreement for somatoform and associated disorders (0.65 to 0.76) according to proposed benchmarking thresholds [54].”
From Diagnostic Performance of an App-Based Symptom Checker in Mental Disorders: Comparative Study in Psychotherapy Outpatients (2022) · cites this paper as [54]
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“An unweighted Cohen’s kappa inter-rater reliability for the two independent raters showed an overall good level of agreement in each n-back task (trained digit n-back, κ = 0.708, 95% CI [0.594, 0.822]; letter n-back, κ = 0.656, 95% CI [0.538, 0.775]; color n-back, κ = 0.693, 95% CI [0.577, 0.810])19.”
From The early effects of external and internal strategies on working memory updating training (2018) · cites this paper as [19]
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“Inter-rater reliability analysis (two raters; a linearly weighted kappa analysis, κw)18 applied to our ordinal scale data revealed a very good reliability for the scoring procedure, κw = 0.844, 95% CI [0.774, 0.914]19.”
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“They performed an interrater reliability check where Cohen’s kappa was 0.71, which is considered ‘good’ [36].”
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- Authors
- Altman, D. G.
- Corresponding author
- Altman, Douglas G.
- ORCID
- Altman, Douglas G.
- Venue
- Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Published
- 1990-11-22
- OpenAlex
- W2118202495
- Cited by
- 10,668
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 18.66
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Probabilistic Statistics in Medicine
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistics Education and Methodologies
- Keywords
- medical statistics, statistical interpretation, medical research methodology, statistical consulting
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