Biostatistics by Example

This book provides introductory to advanced examples of how to use and interpret biostatistical analyses to accomplish a graduation project or any study. The book contains forty real-life comprehensive examples that will suffice the user to complete their analyses. This book addresses common mistakes and myths when applying and interpreting statistical analyses. The book provides road maps in the form of flow charts on how to proceed from exploring the data through hypothesis testing and to modeling and goodness of fit. In this book you will learn: -Exploratory data analysis-How to interpret results -The best decisions on data transformation prior to modeling-The best linear and non-linear models-Univariate versus multivariate models-Which hypothesis test to use and how to interpret results