Product Description

The at a Glance series is popular among medical students and junior doctors for its concise and simple approach and excellent illustrations.

Each bite–sized chapter incorporates colour summary diagrams with corresponding explanatory text. Covering a wide range of topics, books in the at a Glance series are ideal as introductory subject texts or for revision purposes, and are useful throughout medical school and beyond.

Everything you need to know about Medical Statistics...at a Glance!

Medical Statistics at a Glance is a concise and accessible introduction and revision aid for this complex subject. The self–contained chapters explain the underlying concepts of medical statistics and provide a guide to the most commonly used statistical procedures.

This new edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance:

• Presents key facts accompanied by clear and informative tables and diagrams
• Focuses on illustrative examples which show statistics in action, with an emphasis on the interpretation of computer data analysis rather than complex hand calculations
• Includes extensive cross–referencing, a comprehensive glossary of terms and flow–charts to make it easier to choose appropriate tests
• Now provides the learning objectives for each chapter
• Includes a new chapter on Developing Prognostic Scores
• Includes new or expanded material on study management, multi–centre studies, sequential trials, bias and different methods to remove confounding in observational studies, multiple comparisons, ROC curves and checking assumptions in a logistic regression analysis
• The companion website at www.medstatsaag.com contains supplementary material including an extensive reference list and multiple choice questions (MCQs) with interactive answers for self–assessment.

Medical Statistics at a Glance will appeal to all medical students, junior doctors and researchers in biomedical and pharmaceutical disciplines.

Reviews of the previous editions

"The more familiar I have become with this book, the more I appreciate the clear presentation and unthreatening prose. It is now a valuable companion to my formal statistics course."
–International Journal of Epidemiology

"I heartily recommend it, especially to first years, but it′s equally appropriate for an intercalated BSc or Postgraduate research. If statistics give you headaches – buy it. If statistics are all you think about – buy it."
–GKT Gazette

"...I unreservedly recommend this book to all medical students, especially those that dislike reading reams of text. This is one book that will not sit on your shelf collecting dust once you have graduated and will also function as a reference book."
–4th Year Medical Student, Barts and the London Chronicle, Spring 2003

Titles of related interest

Essential Medical Statistics, 2nd Edition; B.R. Kirkwood & J.A.C. Sterne; 2003; 9780865428713

Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 4th Edition; P. Armitage, G. Berry & J.N.S. Matthews; 2001; 9780632052578

Statistics at Square One, 11th Edition – Forthcoming; M.J. Campbell; June 2009; 9781405191005

Statistics at Square Two, 2nd Edition; M.J. Campbell; 2006; 9781405134903

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30176 in Books
• Published on: 2009-07-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

Review
"The more familiar I have become with this book, the more I appreciate the clear presentation and unthreatening prose. It is now a valuable compnaion to my formal statistics course."

International Journal of Epidemiology

"I heartily recommend it, especially to first years, but it′s equally appropriate for an intercalated BSc or Postgraduate research. If statistics give you headaches – buy it. If statistics are all you think about – buy it."

GKT Gazette

"As one who generally has not got a clue when it comes to statistics, this is a book I would definitely recommend on the basis of accessibility."

Surgo: Glasgow University Medical School Gazette

"This book allows the student to teach himself and is a very good long–term source of reference." Cambridge Medicine – Jan 2001

"This book helped me a lot in refreshing ideas and was actually enjoyable to read. I am indebted to the book for being ale to complete the statistical analysis of data from my project." Cambridge Medicine

GKT Gazette
I heartily recommend it, especially to first years, but it's equally appropriate for an intercalated BSc or Postgraduate research.

Cambridge Medicine
This book allows the student to teach himself and is a very good long-term source of reference."

Customer Reviews

Good Place to Get Going
I am not a fan of these "At a glance" books, but this one is really quite good. A little knowledge helps, but I found it explained the more difficult topics very succintly. Here and there it follows the usual statistics book problem of referring to an obscure stat method as if you knew it already, but by and large it was helpful and pointed me in the right direction

At last - a readable statistics book!
After buying several medical statistics books in an effort to try and understand the impenetrable language I finally found one that explained statistics in a clear and straight forward way - and this book was it! Very clear pages outlining what you want to know, how the statistics are calculated and the all important examples to put the tests into context. Don't do what I did and get to this book late - buy this first and then see if you need to get any others!

best med stats book i've found
This book had enough detail to see you through virtually every stats topic that comes up. Everything is explained clearly and is easy to understand...a big improvement on the recommended stats books for my course at least. I'd definitely recommend in to anyone, it has all the info you need, example calculations and applications of different calculations that are fully talked through along with clear, concise definitions and explanations.