An interactive textbook for Inferential Statistics

Ever heard of an "Interactive Textbook" ? That too for a subject so perceived by many, to be dry.
Here what the author means by INTERACTIVE is an interactive table of contents... Though the examples given are not of Medical or Bioscience background.

Inferential Statistics:

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YouTube lessons

You tube lessons useful for students of Community Medicine:

Salman Khan's lessons on statistics @ Khan's Academy are really useful for learning some of the foundations of biostatistics with understanding.

UC Berkeley channel has webcasts of Disaster management, Infectious disease epidemiology and Applied epidemiology using R (R is the latest up-to-date open source statistical package gaining popularity by the day)

IGNOU webcasts for PGDMCH course are also useful.

The Hindu : Life & Style / Youth : YouTube lessons:

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R: Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of a diagnostic...

R: Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of a diagnostic...: "Sensitivity, specificity and predictive value of a diagnostic test"
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Sometimes we need to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of a new diagnostic test or score or index, in comparison to an existing gold standard. It is very simple to evaluate a diagnostic test in R (1).

Community Level prevention of CKD

One renowned nephrologist practising at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai tells that prevention of CKD is the only cost effective method to tackle this impending epidemic. Read his interview to Medindia.

Also one must read,
 "The prevention of Chronic Renal Failure at the community level.

The rural programme of the Kidney Help Trust.
Dr. M.K. Mani, Chief Nephrologist, Apollo Hospital, Chennai."

Nephrologists sans frontières: Preventing chronic kidney disease on a shoestring

Maharashtra launches multi-pronged drive to curb HIV-AIDS - The Times of India

Maharashtra launches multi-pronged drive to curb HIV-AIDS - The Times of India:

Note: Andhra Pradesh stands first in terms of the burden of HIV / AIDS in India.
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Weight loss surgery can do wonders with severely obese people | Northern Voices Online: NVO News Blog

Weight loss surgery can do wonders with severely obese people | Northern Voices Online: NVO News Blog:

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Practical Training Programme for MD Community Medicine and Diploma Public Health (DPH)

Practical Training Programme for students of MD Community Medicine and Diploma Public Health (DPH) was conducted on 2nd July 2011 by the Departmant of Community Medicine at Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad.