href="#ulink_aadd4860-5b02-5afa-ac8d-506878b9d1d6">MEASURING THE STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REGRESSION PARAMETERS
MODEL‐BUILDING AND VARIABLE SELECTION
AUTOMATED (OR STEPWISE) VARIABLE SELECTION
MANUAL VARIABLE SELECTION METHODS
INTERPRETING THE REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
GOODNESS‐OF‐FIT
DUMMY (OR DESIGN) VARIABLES
TESTING THE ASSUMPTIONS OF THE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL
EFFECT MODIFICATION AND INTERACTION
SUMMARY
ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA)
MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS
CHAPTER 35: Logistic Regression
THE LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODEL
VARIABLE SELECTION AND MODEL ESTIMATION
INTERPRETATION AND STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REGRESSION COEFFICIENTS
DUMMY VARIABLES
GOODNESS‐OF‐FIT
EFFECT MODIFICATION – INTERACTION
MODEL DIAGNOSTICS
CHAPTER 36: Poisson Regression
PREAMBLE
POISSON REGRESSION
GOODNESS‐OF‐FIT
ZERO‐INFLATED POISSON REGRESSION
NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION
ZERO‐INFLATED NEGATIVE BINOMIAL REGRESSION (ZNIB)
CHAPTER 37: Measuring Survival
THE KAPLAN–MEIER METHOD – MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME
THE LOG‐RANK TEST
LOG‐RANK TEST FOR TREND
THE PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS (OR COX'S) REGRESSION MODEL
CHAPTER 38: Analysing Qualitative Data
15 PART VIII: Reading Between the Lines: How Authors use Text, Tables, and Pictures to Tell You the Story CHAPTER 39: Results in Text and Tables RAW RESULTS AND COOKED FINDINGS INTERESTING FINDINGS LEGENDS AND BRACKETS DASHES CHAPTER 40: Results in Pictures WHY USE CHARTS AND FIGURES? SHAPE OF DISTRIBUTIONS CHAPTER 41: The Discussion and Conclusions
16 References
17 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 31Table 31.1 A few of the more common statistical tests.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Authors and research centres listed at the start of a research pa...Figure 1.2 Paper written by multiple authors on behalf of several research g...Figure 1.3 Acknowledgement of statistical, financial, and other support at t...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 An example of a structured Abstract – this one from a trial of tw...Figure 2.2 An unstructured Abstract accompanied by a list of Keywords indica...Figure 2.3 Explaining the background to a research study.Figure 2.4 Introduction explaining the rationale for the study.Figure 2.5 Ethical considerations in a study involving adults with a learnin...
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Statement of a study's main hypothesis.Figure 3.2 A study with two hypotheses.Figure 3.3 The (structured) Abstract of a qualitative study, starting with a...Figure 3.4 The aim of the qualitative study.Figure 3.5 New subgroup analysis in report of an RCT.
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 A qualitative study examining views and experience of tests and i...Figure 4.2 Grounded theory as the theoretical basis for a study examining pa...Figure 4.3 A qualitative study employing ethnographic (participant observati...Figure 4.4 A qualitative study involving focus groups and individual intervi...
5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Types of research study design.Figure 5.2 Extract from case series of bouncy castle injuries.Figure 5.3 Extract from cross‐sectional
