Basic Statistical Methods.

Abstract

Statistical analyses involving multiple predictors are generalizations of simpler techniques developed for investigating associations between outcomes and single predictors. Although many of these should be familiar from basic statistics courses, we review some of the key ideas and methods here as background for the methods covered in the rest of the book and to introduce some basic notationKeywordsCoronary Heart DiseaseSystolic Blood PressureOrdinary Little SquareSurvival FunctionCoronary Heart Disease RiskThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.