S. Nassir Ghaemi (Boston Tufts University School of Medicine)

A Clinician's Guide to Statistics in Mental Health

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This guide to statistics for busy mental health professionals describes and applies concepts without mathematics, and includes examples from standard clinical practice. Fully revised and updated in a new edition and covering observational bias, randomization, clinical trials, the overuse of p-values, understanding effect sizes, meta-analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781108814966
• ISBN-10: 1108814964
• Artikelnr.: 66401707

Autorenporträt

S. Nassir Ghaemi is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Tufts Medical Center and is also a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an associate editor of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, a Life Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (UK).

Inhaltsangabe

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.