Overview of the Use of Basic Statistical Methods in Medical Studies. Discussion of Case Studies: Preliminary Trial of the Effect of General Practice Based Nutritional Advice. Randomized Controlled Trial of Anti-Smoking Advice by Nurses in General Practice. Psychological Distress: Outcome and Consultation Rates in One General Practice. Use of Regression Analysis to Explain the Variation in Prescribing Rates and Costs Between Family Practitioner Committees. Hidden Psychiatric Illness: Use of the General Health Questionnaire in General Practice. A Randomized Controlled Trial of Surgery for Glue Ear. Statistical Methods: Data, Tables,. Graphs. Summary Statistics and Probability. Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Means. More on Comparing Means. The Analysis of Variance and the F- Test. Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Means. More on Comparing Means, the Analysis of Variance, and the F- Test. Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals for Percentages. Further T ests for Percentages. Regression and Correlation. Sensitivity and Specificity. Study Design. Calculators and Computers.
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