Product Description

This long awaited second edition of this bestseller continues to provide a comprehensive, user friendly, down–to–earth guide to elementary statistics. The book presents a detailed account of the most important procedures for the analysis of data, from the calculation of simple proportions, to a variety of statistical tests, and the use of regression models for modeling of clinical outcomes.

The level of mathematics is kept to a minimum to make the material easily accessible to the novice, and a multitude of illustrative cases are included in every chapter, drawn from the current research literature. The new edition has been completely revised and updated and includes new chapters on basic quantitative methods, measuring survival, measurement scales, diagnostic testing, bayesian methods, meta–analysis and systematic reviews.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #148558 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Review
“Students of medical statistics will find the book a trusty companion.” (Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, November 2008)

Review
"......can be recommended to all non–statisticians in the medical world as an instructive and easy–to–read introduction..." (British Journal of Surgery, Oct 2003)

"...exciting and fun to read...information is presented in a digestible and humorous manner...an excellent beginner′s book..." (Clinical Trials, Vol 1, 2004)

"...can be read by those without a rigorous background in mathematics...explanations are straight to the point...highly recommended..." (Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Vol 13, 2004)

Statistical Methods
"...can be read by those without a rigorous background in mathematics...explanations are straight to the point...highly recommended..." (Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Vol 13, 2004)

Customer Reviews

A good introduction
I used this book while I was doing a medical statistic module for my degree. I was new to statistics and found the book a very good introduction for a complete beginner. The language is very simple, chatty and easy to understand. There are worked examples and questions and answers. It covers the basics of statistics first like standard deviations, averages e.t.c and then progresses onto the medical statistics such as log-rank test, survival curves e.t.c. However the book did not cover all the material I needed to learn and therefore was not fully comprehensive for my module. But I would definitely recommend it to introduce you to the subject.