The second edition of Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research delivers a thorough examination of the basic techniques and most commonly used statistical methods in health research. Retaining much of what was popular with the well-received first edition, the thoroughly revised second edition includes a new chapter on testing assumptions and how to evaluate whether those assumptions are satisfied and what to do if they are not.The newest edition contai...

*Workbook to accompany Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research with Microsoft Office Excel—*practical and methodological approach to the statistical logic of biostatistics in the field of health research.

A practical and methodological approach to the statistical logic of biostatistics in the field of health researchFocusing on a basic understanding of the methods and analyses in health research, Introduction to Biostatistical Applications in Health Research with Microsoft® Office Excel® provides statistical concepts for interpreting results using Excel. The book emphasizes the application of methods and presents the most common methodological procedures in...

Gathered here for the first time are the original stories written in the early days of production on the internationally acclaimed television series SPACE: 1999. Uncover the differences between Gerry and Sylvia Anderson' s original story Zero G, George Bellak' s first draft of The Void Ahead and Christopher Penfold' s uncredited shooting script Turning Point. Each of these tales show the evolution of the pilot episode with scenes and characters that never made it to the screen. Wonder at a...

Baseball tells its story as one of progress. But what if that story is incomplete?In PLAYING BALL WHILE JEWISH, Prejudice and Silence in Major League Baseball*,* Robert L. Hirsch takes on a question few have been willing to ask directly: if antisemitism in Major League Baseball is a thing of the past, why does the data tell a different story?For 125 years, Jewish representation in Major League Baseball has remained strikingly low with litt...

La prise en charge de la douleur fait partie intégrante de la médecine, tant de ville qu'hospitalière : de nombreux acteurs sont engagés sur cet enjeu médical complexe et désormais reconnu, du médecin généraliste au spécialiste, y compris les spécialistes de la douleur. Ce nouvel ouvrage, publication de référence sur le sujet, leur est destiné. Il a pour objectif de permettre la compréhension des mécanismes en jeu, des différents types de douleurs et de donner toutes les clés pour une meil...

Religious war erupts between church and king and shapes a young man's fate in eleventh-century France . . .Born of nobility in France in the year 1066, seven-year-old Tristan de Saint-Germain has his fate thrown to the winds upon the execution of his father for treason against William the Conqueror of Normandy. Abandoned by his mother, who remarries and departs for England, Tristan and his four-year-old brother, Guillaume, find themselves thrown into the monastic w...

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the logic behind hypothesis testing. This updated edition covers frequentist (classical) and Bayesian approaches to interpretation of the results of a statistical hypothesis test. In a new chapter, nonparametric hypothesis testing is also discussed. The author describes the most commonly used statistical tests and provides instructions for how to perform them using Microsoft Office Excel. Readers will learn how to interpret P-values under a v...

From the Imperium-controlled aetherlanes to a tech noir restitution agency in the Free Zone and from a steampunk, 1894 China with clockwork automatons to a post-1984 Orwellian dystopia with mandatory goodpharm, here are ten science fiction stories of defiance and daring.Split evenly between strong female and male leads, these heroes fight losing battles on principle alone, discover lies hidden deep inside themselves, execute daring rescues and fight for love and liberty in a societ...

An epic novel of the Crusades, the siege of Antioch, and a man and woman swept up in the bloody quest to reach Jerusalem.In 1097, Pope Urban's Army of God confronts the great city of Antioch, the final obstacle before reclaiming Jerusalem from the hammer of Islam. But Antioch is defended by the wily Turcoman, Emir Yaghi Siyan, and is coveted by the atabeg of Mosul, Kerbogha.After overcoming a tortuous trail of impossibility, separation, and heartbreak, Bishop...

In Southeast Asia, atmospheric violence emerges from the haze plumes of burning of palm oil plantations, the invisible but powerful spread of viral flows, and the subordination of upland farmers who have long depended on fire to clear land for new crops. Yet only recently have political ecologists drawn attention to such events’ volumetric social and environmental character. Violent Atmospheres brings the political ecology of crisis to bear on atmospheric violence in Southeast Asi...

Community justice is a phenomenon of growing interest among academics, policy makers, and criminal justice practitioners. The term reflects the increasing collaboration between criminal justice agencies and communities in the joint pursuit of public safety and a less tangible, but no less significant, pursuit of justice for victims, offenders, and all community members affected by crime. In this book, several leading scholars examine the central concerns of this emerging field. Subjects di...