INTRODUCTORY APPLIED BIOSTATISTICS (WITH CD-ROM) explores statistical applications in the medical and public health fields. Examples drawn directly from the authors' clinical experiences with applied biostatistics make this text both practical and applicable. You'll master application techniques by hand before moving on to computer applications, with SAS programming code and output for each technique covered in every chapter. For each topic, the book addresses methodology, including assumptions, statistical formulas, and appropriate interpretation of results. This book is a must-have for every student preparing for a statistical career in a healthcare field!
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
I know less than when I started!:
I have found this text book to be one of the most confusing I have ever read. I have trouble understanding the formulas and correlating them to the questions in the back of the chapters. And it is virtually impossible to use a reference book either. There is a lot of text that just runs together.
Introductory Applied Biostatistics:
This is a great textbook for an introduction to biostatistics. My "required" textbook for my Introduction to Biostatistical Methods was way to technical for me to understand. I got this book to translate and really learn the basics (I have little mathmatics background). Its geared to those who may not have had any statistics backgrounds and easy to read.
great introductory book covering all the key topics:
In contrast to the first reviewer I loved this book! It should be pointed that I am reviewing this first official edition in hard cover with a CD-ROM while the first reviewer reviewed a preliminary edition in paperback with no CD and published in 2005 whereas this text has a 2006 copyright date.
The authors are all statistics professors at Boston University with Ralph D'Agostino Sr. the most well-known. They have a great deal of experience as teachers researchers and consultants and it shows in the... more info
Price-less:
Visually is unappealing. The examples and tests lack answers to corroborate whether your efforts paid off. It looks like your paying a bundle for a photocopy version of the book....
