Concise encyclopedia of biostatistics for medical professionals

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 Dedication
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 Preface
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 abortion rate/ratio
 absolute risk reduction, see attributable risk (AR)
 accelerated failure time model, see also proportional hazards
 acceptable risk
 acceptance and rejection regions
 acceptance sampling, see lot quality assurance scheme
 accuracy
 actuarial method, see expectation of life and the life table
 adaptive designs for clinical trials
 added variable plot
 additive effect/factors
 adjusted effects, see also adjusted mean, adjusted odds ratio, adjusted R[sup(2)]
 adjusted mean Adjusted odds ratio (adjusted OR), see also odds ratioadjusted R[sup(2)] , see also multiple correlation
 adjusting for baseline values, see also analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
 adolescent health (epidemiological indicators of)
 Growth in Height and Weight in Adolescence
 Sexual Maturity Rating
 adult health (epidemiological indicators of)
 adult literacy rate, see education indicators
 adverse effects and adverse patient outcomes
 affinity, see also measures of dissimilarity and similarity
 age-period-cohort analysis
 age-specific death rates, see death rates Agglomerative methods, see hierarchical clusteringagreement assessment (overall), see also Bland-Altman method of agreement
 Agreement in Quantitative Measurements
 Approaches for Measuring Quantitative Agreement
 Agreement in Qualitative Measurements
 agreement charts
 AIC, see Akaike information criterion (AIC) and general AIC (GAIC)
 Akaike information criterion (AIC) and general AIC (GAIC)
 aleatory uncertainties, see also epistemic uncertainties
 algorithm (statistical)
 allocation of subjects, see also random allocation
 alternative hypothesis, see null and alternative hypotheses Alpha error, see level of significancealpha-spending function, see also Lan-deMets procedure
 analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
 analysis of variance (ANOVA), see also one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, repeated measures ANOVA
 analysis (statistical)
 analytical studies
 ANCOVA, see analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
 Anderberg dichotomy coefficient, see association between dichotomous characteristics (degree of)
 Anderson-Darling test
 ANOVA, see analysis of variance (ANOVA)
 antagonism, see interaction
 antecedent factors
 APACHE score
 Apgar score
 area diagram
 area sampling Area under the concentration curve (AUC curve)area under the ROC curve, see C-statistic
 arithmetic mean, see mean (arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic)
 ARMA and ARIMA models, see autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models
 Armitage-Doll model
 arms of a trial
 association and its degree
 association between dichotomous characteristics (degree of)
 association between ordinal characteristics (degree of)
 association between polytomous characteristics (degree of)
 association in prospective, retrospective, and cross-sectional studies, see also chi-square test for 2 × 2 tables