Using and Understanding Medical Statisticsm

This book is an useful introduction to medical statistics, and also a reference for every discerning reader of medical research literature. This edition presents the most extensive enhancement since the first edition was published 30 years ago. The single greatest change has been the inclusion of source code, together with selected output. This innovation has enabled the authors to de-emphasize formulae and calculations, and let software do all the "heavy lifting". This edition introduces readers to several graphical statistical tools, such as Q-Q plots to check normality, residual plots for multiple regression models, funnel plots to detect publication bias in a meta-analysis and Bland-Altman plots for assessing agreement in clinical measurements. New examples that better serve the expository goals have been added to a half-dozen chapters. In addition, there are new sections describing exact confidence bands for the Kaplan-Meier estimator, as well as negative binomial and zero-inflated Poisson regression models for over-dispersed count data.

5th Edition. XX + 338 pages, 48 figures, 103 tables. Revised and extended edition. Hardcover + online supplement material (Zip File) and eBook.

ISBN: Hardcover: 978-3-318-05458-3; eBook: 978-3-318-05459-0

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