Basic Knowledge of Biomedical Statistics for Pediatric Cardiologists

Statistics and biomedical research.

Medical observations of leukemia or Hodgkin's disease clusters in time and space have led statisticians to invent techniques to evaluate the probability that these occurrences were due to chance. A difficult computation in human genetics was simplified by a matrix devised by a non-genetical statistician, and readily adapted to newly emerging computer-processing. The experiences exemplify the sp...

BMI 713: Computational Statistics for Biomedical Sciences

1. (Taken from [1]) A statistical analysis that combines information from several studies is called a metaanalysis. A meta-analysis compared aspirin with placebo on incidence of heart attack and of stroke, seperately for men and from women (J. Am. Med. Assoc., 295: 306-313, 2006). For the Women’s Health Study, heart attacks were reported for 198 of 19,934 taking aspirin and for 193 of 19,942 ta...

Introduction to Statistics for Biomedical Engineers

Pediatric Vision Screening: some General Knowledge for Pediatricians

Primary vision care is recommended for infants and young children .Childhood is critical time to prevent loss of vision and to optimize treatment so some eye disorders in children must be diagnosed at this time.To detect risk factors and visual abnormalities, the eye screening done by pediatricians and other primary care providers is necessary. The process that should occur at each child visit ...

Statistics in three biomedical journals.

In this paper we analyze the use of statistics and associated problems, in three Czech biological journals in the year 2000. We investigated 23 articles Folia Biologica, 60 articles in Folia Microbiologica, and 88 articles in Physiological Research. The highest frequency of publications with statistical content have used descriptive statistics and t-test. The most usual mistake concerns the abs...