title: Applications of statistics to medical science, II overview of statistical procedures for general use.
abstract: Procedures of statistical analysis are reviewed to provide an overview of applications of statistics for general use. Topics that are dealt with are inference on a population, comparison of two populations with respect to means and probabilities, and multiple comparisons. This study is the second part of series in which we survey medical statistics. Arguments related to statistical associations and regressions will be made in subsequent papers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan. watmath@nms.ac.jp
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D008511:Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011336:Probability; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods*