Statistical Methods for Medical Investigations

Provides a concise, practical and yet relatively non-technical account of the more sophisticated statistical techniques now used routinely in many medical investigations. This new edition gives additional space to important topics, from the design of medical investigations to regression.

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This expanded and updated second edition builds upon its predecessor in providing a concise, practical and yet relatively non-technical account of the more sophisticated statistical techniques now used routinely in many medical investigations. The new edition gives additional space to such important topics as the design of medical investigations, regression and logistic regression, the analysis of longitudinal studies, the problems of missing data, and the analysis of observational studies. All chapters contain new examples.