Release Date: 15 January, 2000
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From Book News, Inc.
Carvounis (medicine, State U. of New York-Stony Brook) seeks a middle ground between biostatistics textbooks that are too long and technical and those that are too short and superficial. He offers physicians, medical students, and biology workers answers to specific question about the statistical analysis needed for a specific project in clinical or basic research or a specific paper. He also notes that most such texts are written by statisticians, who do not always understand the needs of biology workers. He includes questions and answers, but no bibliography.Book News, Inc.®, Portland, OR
Book Description
This is a compact, highly practical step-by-step textbook of biostatistics for medical students. Unlike other books in the field, which tend to be either too technical or too general, Dr. Carvounis s text gives students and practitioners specific answers about the statistical analysis needed for a specific clinical or basic research project or the appropriate selection of statistical analysis in a technical paper. His book clearly explains with examples data distribution and probabilities, the basics of inferential statistics, comparison of groups with outcome in continuous data, correlation of continuous data and linear regression, ordinal and nominal data, and how to study and read the literature. The text concludes with a self-assessment question-and-answer section, a specially valuable set of appendices showing how to evaluate significance with different statistical techniques, and a thorough index.
Book Info
State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook. Concise and practical text dealing with specific and general areas of statistics. An aid to help researchers select, understand, and evaluate methods of evaluating specialist literature. For clinical and basic researchers and students. Expanded-outline. DNLM: Biometry. Rating
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