16Table 16.1 Systolic blood pressure measurements from four hospital wards.Table 16.2 Mean (with S.E.) systolic blood pressure measurements (mmHg) of sa...12 Appendix LTable L.1 Values of Q to be used in the formula for calculating the required ...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 The limits of an observation.
2 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Dot plots showing frequency distribution of (a) 17 new‐born baby ...Figure 4.2 Bar graph showing distribution of blood‐group types.Figure 4.3 Frequency distribution of traffic accident fatalities.Figure 4.4 Frequency distribution of systolic blood pressure observations fr...Figure 4.5 Frequency polygon of systolic blood pressure observations from 15...Figure 4.6 Frequency curve of 100 new‐born baby weights.Figure 4.7 Boys weight‐for‐age growth chart from birth to 12 months.Figure 4.8 Scattergram of weight and chest circumference of 25 new‐born babi...Figure 4.9 Location of accidents (a) males and (b) females.
3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 The principle of cohort studies.Figure 6.2 Principle of case‐control studies.
4 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Bimodal distribution of Forced Expiratory Volume in one second of...Figure 7.2 (a) Symmetrical distribution; (b) skewed distribution.
5 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Estimated probability distribution of new‐born baby weights.Figure 9.2 Gradation of histogram (a) into the normal curve (b).Figure 9.3 Normal curves. (a) Similar μ and different σ; (b) different μ and...Figure 9.4 Normal curve with standard deviations.Figure 9.5 The normal curve with 5% in two tails.Figure 9.6 The normal curve with 5% in upper tail.Figure 9.7 (a) Untransformed observations; (b) logarithmically transformed o...
6 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 The difference between two sample means.
7 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Size frequency distributions of systolic blood pressure measurem...Figure 11.2 Hypothesis testing and the normal curve. (a) Two‐tailed test; (b...
8 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Scattergrams of bivariate data.Figure 13.2 Perfect correlations.
9 Chapter 14Figure 14.1 A regression line.Figure 14.2 Gradients of slopes: gradient = y units/x units.Figure 14.3 Final height of car above sea level = a + bx, where b is the gra...Figure 14.4 A perfect linear relationship.Figure 14.5 Deviations from the regression line.Figure 14.6 Regression of oxygen consumption on exercise time.Figure 14.7 Graph of decline in plasma concentration of ‘Drug D’. (a) Axes u...
Guide
4 Preface
8 Appendix A Table of Random Numbers
10 Appendix C χ 2‐Distribution
11 Appendix D Critical Values of Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
12 Appendix E Critical Values of the Product Moment Correlation Coefficient
13 Appendix F Mann–Whitney U ‐test Values (Two‐Tailed Test) P = 0.05
14 Appendix G Critical Values of T in the Wilcoxon Test for Matched Pairs
18 Appendix K Leicestershire ECT Study Data:
19 Appendix L How Large Should Our Samples Be?
20 Bibliography
21 Index
22 Wiley End User License Agreement
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