Introductory Medical Statistics, 3rd edition

Introductory Medical Statistics, Third Edition is a lively, comprehensive text that provides a complete grounding in statistical techniques for medical personnel. This edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the changes in the statistical know-how medical personnel are expected to have. It begins with data presentation, normal distribution,

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Introductory Medical Statistics, now in its third edition, is an introductory textbook on basic statistical techniques. It is written for physicians, surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiographers, hospital administrators, medical statisticians in training, biochemists, and other professionals allied to medicine. It is suitable as a teaching text for clinicians working towards their professional examinations. It is also suitable for Maters degree courses in medical physics.

The third edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include:

Clinical trial design and analysis]

Multivariate analysis

Cox proportional hazards model

McNemar, Wicoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Mantel-Haenszel, and Kappa tests

Kaplan-Meier survival rates

Sensitivity and Specificity

Specification of treatment success, cure, and quality of life

Risk specification

Case-control and cohort epidemiological studies

Glossary of terms

The major change has been the advent of personal computing, so people rely on the power of their machine, and its software to number crunch. What is missing is that the software may not use the appropriate statistical error standard - Dick Mould