Product Description

Statistical science plays an increasingly important role in medical research. Over the last few decades, many new statistical methods have been developed which have particular relevance for medical researchers and, with the appropriate software now easily available, these techniques can be used almost routinely to great effect. These innovative methods include survival analysis, generalized additive models and Bayesian methods.

Modern Medical Statistics covers these essential new techniques at an accessible technical level, its main focus being not on the theory but on the effective practical application of these methods in medical research.

Modern Medical Statistics is an indispensable practical guide for medical researchers and medical statisticians as well as an ideal text for advanced courses in medical statistics and public health. (20030801)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #802107 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 256 pages

Review
Modern Medical Statistics is an excellent practical guide for medical researchers and medical statisticians. Advanced students of statistics and medical researchers will find the volume useful and stimulating. (Journal of Statistical Research )

The technical content is succinct while practical applications are illustrated via several examples reinforced by exercises and listings of the relevant software. (Short Book Reviews )

This book should prove a lucid and practical guide...an accessible and useful introduction to the topics presented for infectious disease epidemiologists. (Epidemiology and Infection )

The book succeeds in describing almost all recent developments and advances in a number of branches of statistics related to research investigations in medicine (Zentralblatt fur Mathematik )

I am sure that in years to come I will find this book a very useful handbook of methods and it will no doubt save me many hours of searching through more specialized texts. The wide range of examples and helpful advice on what one should be thinking about in applying the methods will be invaluable. (Statistical Methods in Medical Research )

'This is an interesting and useful book, written in a lucid style ... The author has an obvious gift for presenting advanced concepts in an intuitive and accessible manner.' (Biometrics )

From the Back Cover
Statistical science plays an increasingly important role in medical research. Over the last few decades, many new statistical methods have been developed which have particular relevance for medical researchers and, with the appropriate software now easily available, these techniques can be used almost routinely to great effect. These innovative methods include survival analysis, generalized additive models and Bayesian methods.

MODERN MEDICAL STATISTICS covers these essential new techniques at an accessible technical level, its main focus being not on the theory but on the effective practical application of these methods in medical research.

• Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter
• Numerous practical examples throughout
• Up–to–date information on the software packages available that relate directly to the techniques covered in each chapter
• Glossary

MODERN MEDICAL STATISTICS is an indispensable practical guide for medical researchers and medical statisticians as well as an ideal text for advanced courses in medical statistics and public health.

About the Author
BRIAN S EVERITT is Professor of Behavioural Statistics and Head of the Biostatistics and Computing Department at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London (20030801)