Basic & Clinical Biostatistics PDF

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A comprehensive user-friendly introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research. Features “Presenting Problems” (case studies) drawn from studies published in the medical literature, end-of-chapter, and a CD-ROM with data sets and statistical software programs.

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• Series: LANGE Basic Science
• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Lange Medical Books / McGraw-Hill; 4th edition (April 2, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071410171
• ISBN-13: 978-0071410175
• Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.4 x 9 inches
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Basic & Clinical Biostatistics PDF

Basic & Clinical Biostatistics: Fourth Edition

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A Doody's Core Title for 2011!

A comprehensive user-friendly introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology applied to medicine, clinical practice, and research. Features “Presenting Problems” (case studies) drawn from studies published in the medical literature, end-of-chapter, and a CD-ROM with data sets and statistical software programs.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Medical Research2. Study Designs in Medical Research3. Summarizing Data & Presenting Data in Tables and Graphs4. Probability & Related Topics for Making Inferences About Data5. Research Questions about One Group6. Research Questions about Two Separate or Independent Groups7. Research Questions about Means in Three or More Groups8. Research Questions about Relationships among Variables9. Analyzing Research Questions about Survival10. Statistical Methods for Multiple Variables11. Survey Research12. Methods of Evidence-Based Medicine & Decision Analysis13. Reading the Medical LiteratureAppendix A: TablesAppendix B: Answers to ExercisesAppendix C: FlowchartsGlossary

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Beth Dawson, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL

Robert G. Trapp, MD, Springfield, IL

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The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care.
*First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
*A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
*Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics

" ... Readers may 'learn' and then 'do' immediately ... I learned a lot from this book."
—Online review of the Third Edition

Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.
*Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
*NEW chapter on survey research
*Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
*Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information
*Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
*CD-ROM with NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
*End-of-chapter exercises
*Multiple-choice final practice exam

1. Huge breadth: covers topics of interest to clinicians and plenty of material (see below) for aspiring researchers. Algorithms and lay-out keeps the big picture easily in view. 2. Solved problems: methodical answers, clear, instructive. 3. Appropriate depth: is mathematically correct -- not oversimiplified at the cost of accuracy -- while introducing the key formulas and concepts. Much explanatory text makes the ideas clear rather than esoteric derivations. 4. Includes statistics software: menu-driven so "user friendly," has basic and advanced functions. 5. Practical approach: sample problems and exercises are modelled around cases rather than just theory. These cases have data-base directly on the accompanying software so readers may 'learn' and then 'do' immediately. 6. I learned a lot from this book :-)

By Ralph Leonard, MD

I bought this book in 1990 (an older version) and have never had a statistics course. I have found it to be an extremely helpful starting point for the application of statistical tests to biomedical problems. From this I have gone on and used more sophisticated tools for computation and have only rarely needed to seek out the advice of experts.

The book is packed full of information and covers the broad range of problems most often encountered in biomedical science. It emphasizes an understanding of the choice an appropriate test for a given problem. Flow charts also help guide the user to the right test and the correct chapter. For this reason I have come back to it repeatedly over the years and it has become well worn. It is sparse on explanation of the statistical or mathematical proofs of methods so it is more of a cookbook than as a theoretical treatise.

By Mattelfesso