Biostatistics: A Methodology for the Health Sciences, 2nd Edition

Authors: Gerald van Belle, Lloyd D. Fisher, Patrick J. Heagerty, and Thomas Lumley Publisher: Wiley Copyright: 2004 ISBN-10: 0-471-03185-2 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-03185-7 Pages: 871; hardcover Price: $112.00 See a large photo of the front cover See the back cover Table of contents

Comment from the Stata technical group

This text is useful as an introductory statistics text, as an advanced biostatistics text for a graduate course or for professional self-study, and as an encyclopedia of biostatistics and a valuable desk reference. At almost 900 pages, it can easily serve in these three roles.

For the novice, some chapters of the text are similar to what you would find in an introductory statistics textbook, including an overview of the role that statistics plays in biomedical science, descriptive statistics, the normal distribution, one- and two-sample inference of means and proportions, issues associated with random sampling, contingency tables, linear models, and ANOVA, among others.

For those needing an advanced statistics text or an introductory course in biostatistics, there are chapters devoted to discrimination and classification, principal component and factor analysis, epidemiological tables, analysis of panel data, survival analysis, and randomized clinical trials, to name a few. Each chapter also contains many exercises, making it ideal for use in the classroom, as well as for self-study.

Finally, the authors have invested considerable effort in forming a bibliography so complete that it may be used by advanced researchers wishing to track down current literature. Since the bibliography is organized by chapter, the reader has instant access to a reference list for any subfield of biostatistics currently under study.

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