Chapter 11

MATLAB Case Study on Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

Abstract

This chapter contains a MATLAB case study on a biomedical application of descriptive and inferential statistics. The case study involves writing code to generate data of the myocardium thickness from cardiac magnetic resonance scans. The exercises involve measuring the thickness, assessing intraobserver variation, and statistical analysis of the data.

Keywords

MATLAB; descriptive statistics; inferential statistics; myocardium; magnetic resonance; left ventricle; intraobserver variation

Learning Objectives

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
  1. O11.A  Use MATLAB to apply the statistical techniques that you have learnt in this book to a real-world ...

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