Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences
Abstract This dataset contains repeated measurements of tumor size from an animal xenograft experiment designed to compare four treatments for cancers. Study animals were n=37 mice with baseline tumor volumes of between40-60 mm3. Animals were assigned to either: 1) control (n=8); drug only (n=10); 3) radiation only (n=10); or 4) drug + radiation (n=9). Tumor […]
Abstract This data set contains 2,919 individual records of adults undergoing colorectal surgery. Age, gender, race, BMI, several risk factors, several surgical indices, vitamin D levels (on 5% of the patients, approx.), the key predictor (season) and the outcome (infection or not) are provided. The dataset is cleaned and complete (no missing data except for […]
Abstract This data set contains data obtained from “Acupuncture for chronic headache in primary care: large, pragmatic, randomized trial”, Andrew J Vickers, Rebecca W Rees, Catherine E Zollman, Rob McCarney, Claire M Smith, Nadia Ellis, Peter Fisher and Robbert Van Haselen, 2004 Mar 27;328(7442):744. Study Design Topic Statistical Method Statistical Method Statistical Method Randomized Controlled […]
Abstract This is a subset of the Framingham Heart Study of the factors related to cardiovascular disease development. Data are measurements of 9 variables on 4,699 initially disease-free subjects measured at baseline. Study Design Topic Statistical Method Statistical Method Statistical Method Prospective Cohort Cardiovascular Disease Description Multiple Linear Regression Logistic Regression Contributor The Framingham Didactic […]