Introduction to Medical Statistics with Jamovi

1st Edition

Preface

This is a working draft.

This online textbook is for medical students, doctors, medical researchers, nurses, members of professions allied to medicine, and all others concerned with medical data.

While statistics books focus on mathematics, this textbook focuses on using a computer to conduct data analysis. That means using a statistical software program, in this case the Jamovi software for statistics and graphics. Our aim is to keep a balance between mathematical rigor and readability as well as learning Jamovi and statistics simultaneously.

Most of the examples discussed in this textbook are based on scientific studies whose data are publicly available. For each example, we provide the step-by-step application in Jamovi. Readers are encouraged to follow these steps while reading the textbook so that they can learn statistics through hands-on experience.

All sections of this textbook are reproducible as they were made using Quarto^® which is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc.

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License

This textbook is free to use, and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 License.