Statistics in Medicine

Statistics in Medicine, Fourth Edition, helps medical and biomedical investigators design and answer questions about analyzing and interpreting data and predicting the sample size required to achieve useful results. It makes medical statistics easy for the non-biostatistician by outlining common methods used in 90% of medical research. The text covers how to plan studies from conception to publication, what to do with data, and follows with step-by-step instructions for biostatistical methods from the simplest levels, to more sophisticated methods now used in medical articles. Examples from almost every medical specialty, and from dentistry, nursing, pharmacy and health care management are provided.

This book does not require background knowledge of statistics or mathematics beyond high school algebra and provides abundant clinical examples and exercises to reinforce concepts. It is a valuable source for biomedical researchers, healthcare providers and anyone who conducts research or quality improvement projects.

• Expands and revises important topics, such as basic concepts behind descriptive statistics and testing, descriptive statistics in three dimensions, the relationship between statistical testing and confidence intervals, and more
• Presents an easy-to-follow format with medical examples, step-by-step methods and check-yourself exercises
• Explains statistics for users with little statistical and mathematical background
• Encompasses all research development stages, from conceiving a study, planning it in detail, carrying out the methods, putting obtained data in analyzable form, analyzing and interpreting the results, and publishing the study

Robert H. Riffenburgh, PhD, PStat, Fellow American Statistical Association, Fellow Royal Statistical Society, retired in 2021 at age 90 as Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University. He has also been a company CEO, government scientist, oceanometrician, Navy undersea diver, NATO officer in Europe, and medical research planner/analyst. He published 165 scientific articles and edited two journal series. Since retiring, he has published two novels, penned 50 short stories, and won the Odin Writers Award.

Daniel L. Gillen, PhD., is Chancellor’s Professor of Statistics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Global Health & Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). He is also Associate Dean for Experiential Learning in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UCI. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and Past President of the Western North American Region of the International Biometric Society. He leads the Data and Statistics Core for the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCI and previously led the Biostatistics Shared Resource at the UCI Chao Family Cancer Center. He serves as a consultant to the FDA and the biopharmaceutical industry and has served on more than 80 independent safety monitoring boards for multicenter international clinical trials. He has published over 220 peer-reviewed articles in statistical methods and clinical science journals.