Basic Clinical Biostatistics - Softcover

DAWSON SAUNDER

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838505414 ISBN 13: 9780838505410

Publisher: Pearson Professional Education, 1990

Synopsis

A Doody's Core Title for 2017!

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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

About the Author

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

Robert G. Trapp, MD, Springfield, IL

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Professional Education
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0838505414
• ISBN 13: 9780838505410
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English