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Applications of Statistics to Medical Science, II Overview of Statistical Procedures for General Use

Hiroshi Watanabe

Department of Mathematics, Nippon Medical School

Procedures of statistical analysis are reviewed to provide an overview of applications of statistics for general use. Topics that are dealt with are inference on a population, comparison of two populations with respect to means and probabilities, and multiple comparisons. This study is the second part of series in which we survey medical statistics. Arguments related to statistical associations and regressions will be made in subsequent papers.

J Nippon Med Sch 2012; 79: 31-36

Keywords
statistical test, statistical inference

Correspondence to
Hiroshi Watanabe, Department of Mathematics, Nippon Medical School, 2-297-2 Kosugi-cho, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki, 211-0063, Japan
watmath@nms.ac.jp

Received, October 24, 2011
Accepted, December 7, 2011