Primer of Biostatistics Statistical Software Program CD-ROM PDF

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This menu-driven CD-ROM includes 30 statistical tests and performs meaningful analysis of data quickly and easily. It also provides helpful advice on which tests to run. Printing results is as easy as point and click. Version 5.0 features more statistical tests and an improved user interface. It runs on any Windows 95 or higher computer and can be used alone or in concert with Glantz's "Primer of Biostatistics, 5th edition".

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• Publisher: Appleton & Lange; 5th edition edition (June 27, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071381503
• ISBN-13: 978-0071381505
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 ounces

Primer of Biostatistics Statistical Software Program CD-ROM PDF

I adopted this book last year for my first year grad level course in biostatistics (for MS Biology students) and my students and I were very unhappy with it. It presents ANOVA in a very unusual (and confusing) way, and it's not easy to find the needed formulas buried in the text. The authors present some tests well (ex. Tukey) and make a very good point about the misuse of the standard error of the mean. The examples and end of the chapter problems are very good for medical applications; however, several of the problems refer to non-existent tables or problems (or ones that are numbered differently) and several provide answers that are just plain wrong! We compiled a list of errors we found and emailed both the first author and the publisher and never received a reply. It was definitely not worth the aggravation! This year we are using Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials. It, too, is flawed, but the students report that finding the appropriate formulas and examples is relatively easy. It doesn't provide enough problems for each chapter to test you knowledge, and the humor is a bit bizarre, but it is a better teaching text.

By Lisa Lambert

The concept of this book is good-cut to the chase and give lots of relevent examples. However, the book has innumerable typos which can make it very dificult to follow the text. Some sections are just incomprehensible such as the section on power calculations for the chi square test. Most of the exercises at the end of the chapter are heavy on arithmetic and light on conceptual issues. Often the answers to the exercises are wrong. All these typos are really unacceptable for a fifth edition. I am at Amazon looking for another text to keep as a reference. By way of disclaimer, I am taking the author's course on introductory biostatistics and am doing average.

By michael Gorman