Provides students and practitioners with a clear, conciseintroduction to the statistics they will come across in theirregular reading of clinical papers.
Written by three experts with wide teaching and consultingexperience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the HealthSciences, Fourth Edition:
* Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics
* Covers all essential statistical methods
* Completely revised, updated and expanded
* Includes numerous examples and exercises on the interpretationof the statistics in papers published in medical journals
From the reviews of the previous edition:
"The book has several excellent features: it is written bystatisticians, is.... well presented, is well referenced.... and isshort." THE LANCET
"Many statisticians are concerned at the generally poorstandard of statistics in papers published in medical journals.Perhaps this could be remedied if more research workers would sparea few hours to read through Campbell and Machin's book."BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL
"... a simple, interesting and insightful introduction tomedical statistics... highlyrecommended." STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICALRESEARCH
"Campbell and Machin found the golden mean... this book canbe recommended for all students and all medicalresearchers." ISCB NEWSLETTER
Michael J. Campbell
Biostatistics Biostatistik Medical Science Medizin Medizinische Statistik Pharmacology & Pharmaceutical Medicine Pharmakologie u. Pharmazeutische Medizin Statistics Statistik
"This is an excellent text for teaching an introductory course inbiostatistics and for those interested in self-study." (TheAmerican Statistician, November 2008)
"This book seems to me to be a very useful course text foran audience of students in the health sciences."(Biometrics, December 2008)
"This is an excellent text for teaching an introductory coursein biostatistics and for those interested in self-study." (TheAmerican Statistician, November 2008)
"...this reviewer recommends without any reservation thisbook for an introductory course in medical statistics." (MAAReviews, December 28, 2007)
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