(Ebook) Evidence-Based Diagnosis (Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology) by Thomas B. Newman, Michael A. Kohn ISBN 9780521714020, 9780521886529, 0521714028, 052188652X

(Ebook) Evidence-Based Diagnosis (Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology) by Thomas B. Newman, Michael A. Kohn ISBN 9780521714020, 9780521886529, 0521714028, 052188652X

This book should be on every clinical researcher's bookshelf. By the time I reached page 40 of the library copy, I knew I had to have my old to underline, make notes and insert flags. Already I had found one of the clearest explanations of problems with assessing agreement that elude so many researchers. What followed were more clear, easy-to-follow explanations of many complicated, difficult-to-understand Issues such as the meaning and use of p-values and confidence intervals. There is even a section on how to construct clinical decision rules. Within a week of reading this book, I found occasion to refer putative authors to it for the only detailed explanation I had seen of a statistical procedure (Bland-Altman plots) they had performed but did not undersand how to use. Other occasions for use arise every day.