Topics

1. The Laws of Probability
   
2. Probability, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
   
3. Survival Curves and More
   
4. Formulating and Testing Theories
   
5. The First Family of Statistical Tests
   
6. Examples: In Vitro Fertilization, Cancer Risk Factors, Epidemics
   
7. To the Medical Literature
   
8. Statistical Sampling: The Concept
   
9. How Big a Sample?
   
10. Sampling Biases and Other Horrors
    
11. Back to the Medical Literature
    
12. Correlation, Causality, and Ambiguity
    
13. Linear Regression Analysis
    
14. Further Regression Models (e.g., Multiple, Logistic)
    
15. To Regress or Not to Regress

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