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Biostatistics - A Guide to Design, Analysis and Discovery. (2nd edition)
Ronald Forthofer, Eun Lee and Mike Hernandez
Academic press
February 2007
Hardback 528 pp ISBN 9780123694928
£48.00
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Today, mathematics, biology, medicine, and statistics are closing the interdisciplinary gap
in an unprecedented way and many of the important unanswered questions now emerge at the interface
of these disciplines. Now in its Second Edition, this user-friendly guide on biostatistics focuses on the proper
use and interpretation of statistical methods.
This textbook does not require extensive background in mathematics,
making it user-friendly for all students in the public health sciences field. Instead of highlighting derivations
of formulas, the authors provide rationales for the formulas, allowing students to grasp a better understanding
of the link between biology and statistics.
The material on life tables and survival analysis allows students to better understand the recent literature
in the health field, particularly in the study of chronic disease treatment. Biostatistics now includes a
companion website to demonstrate the different applications of computer packages for performing the
various analyses presented in this text.
Aimed at students in the health sciences, public health professionals, practitioners.
Contents
- Introduction,
- Data and Numbers,
- Descriptive Tools,
- Probability and Life Tables,
- Probability Distributions,
- Study Designs,
- Interval Estimation,
- Test of Hypotheses,
- Test of Hypotheses Based on the Normal Distribution,
- Nonparametric Tests,
- Analysis
of Categorical Data,
- Analysis of Survival Data,
- Analysis of Variance,
- Linear Regression,
- Logistic Regression,
- Analysis of Survey Data
Appendix A. Statistical Tables,
Appendix B. Selected Governmental Biostatistical Data,
Appendix C. Solutions to Selected Exercises
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