Evaluating Clinical and Public Health Interventions A Practical Guide to Study Design and Statistics
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interventions
- 3 Evaluating an intervention
- 4 Randomized designs
- 5 Nonrandomized studies
- 6 Statistical analysis of intervention trials
- 7 Methods for adjusting for baseline differences between treatment groups
- 8 Time series analysis
- 9 Special topics
- 10 Research to action
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
- References
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Interventions
- 3 Evaluating an intervention
- 4 Randomized designs
- 5 Nonrandomized studies
- 6 Statistical analysis of intervention trials
- 7 Methods for adjusting for baseline differences between treatment groups
- 8 Time series analysis
- 9 Special topics
- 10 Research to action
- 11 Conclusion
- Index
- References
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Evaluating Clinical and Public Health InterventionsA Practical Guide to Study Design and Statistics, pp. 1 - 14Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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