TY - BOOK AU - Portney, Leslie Gross. AU - Watkins, Mary P. TI - Foundations of clinical research: applications to practice SN - 9781292020365 U1 - 616/P83 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Harlow, Essex, England PB - Pearson Education Limited, KW - Clinical medicine -- Research -- Methodology KW - Medicine -- Research -- Methodology N1 - "Pearson New International Edition."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I: Foundations of Clinical Research1. A Concept of Clinical Research2. The Role of Theory in Clinical Research3. Ethical Issues in Clinical Research Part II: Concepts of Measurement4. Principles of Measurement5. Reliability of Measurements6. Validity of Measurements Part III: Designing Clinical Research7. Asking the Research Question8. Sampling9. Validity in Experimental Design10. Experimental Designs11. Quasi-Experimental Designs12. Single Subject Designs13. Exploratory Research: Observational Designs14. Descriptive Research15. Surveys and Questionnaires16. Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Part IV: Data Analysis17. Descriptive Analysis18. Statistical Inference19. Comparing Two Means: The t-test20. Comparing More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance21. Multiple Comparison Tests22. Nonparametric Tests for Group Comparisons23. Correlation24. Regression25. Measures of Association for Categorical Variables: Chi-Square26. Statistical Measures of Reliability27. Statistical Measures of Validity28. Epidemiology: Measures of Risk29. Multivariate Analysis30. Data Management ER -