Product Description

Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition continues to provide medical students and professionals with the easiest possible explanations of the key statistical techniques used throughout the medical literature. Each technique is graded for ease of use and frequency of appearance in the mainstream medical journals. Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition is essential reading for anyone looking to understand: *confidence intervals and probability values *numbers needed to treat *t tests and other parametric tests *survival analysis. If you need to understand the medical literature, then you need to read this book. From the Publisher: You may also be interested in our MRCGP texts: Applied Knowledge Test for the new MRCGP (ISBN 9781904842545); New Clinical Genetics (ISBN 9781904842316); Puzzles for Medical Students (ISBN 9781904842348); Critical Reading Questions Workbook (ISBN 9780955366116); MEQ Workbook (ISBN 9780955366123); MRCGP Orals Summary Cards (ISBN 9780955366147); VIVA Topics Workbook (ISBN 9780955366130); CSA Summary Cards (ISBN 9780955366154).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7074 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 136 pages

Review
This book is not (and does not claim to be) a textbook to teach you how to carry out medical statistics. However, as a lightweight, friendly introduction to the subject area it surpasses anything else I have seen. --2009 BMA Medical Book Competition Programme and Award Winners, September 2009

About the Author
M. Harris is General Practitioner and Senior Lecturer in Medical Education, Bristol.G. Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Medical Statistics, University of Bath.

Customer Reviews

If Carlsberg wrote books on statistics...
Just about the only book on statistics that I've ever been able to understand. Not designed to teach you how to do statistics but how to tell what other people's statistics actually mean. Contains really helpful explanations of the importance and meaning of most common (and many uncommon) statistical concepts that clinicians are likely to encounter in the medical literature. I'm not competent to judge the accuracy, but for sheer comprehensibility it easily surpasses anything else on the shelves in our health library.

Made reading articles MUCH easier
I am a therapy radiographer. I bought this book to make sense of the articles I was reading on monoclonal antibodies with hazard ratios, odds ratios, confidence intervals, p-values, regression models and Kaplan-Meier survival plots.
The book has small bite-size chapters on each subject which are really easy to read. Each section points out the importance of the statistical topic and how easy they are to follow.
What is particularly useful is the examples of each subject that are provided which takes a topic and breaks it down and explains what the statistical term means for that example.
Each section also has an 'exam tip' at the end pointing out the topics examiners like to ask about.
At the end of the book there is a section where you can rest your understanding of the statistics used in actual research papers. Although I failed dismally at spotting all the statistics used, it gave me a useful framework which I used to critique an article for my assignment.
All in all, an excellt book which made reading articles MUCH easier and allowed me to understand the results of the articles I was reading.

Idiot-proof
A page a concept - idiot proof at making concepts clear that were always mysterious and nebulous. The only thing that stops me giving 5 stars is that no book on statistics can be that interesting!