This publication presents the ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care. A thorough and interesting presentation of biostatistics, this book is the first choice of students, educators, and practitioners. Students will become informed users of biostatistics and learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.

Features include:

• Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
• New chapter on survey research
• Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
• Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
• CD-ROM with number crunching statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
• End-of-chapter exercises
• Multiple-choice final practice examination

By Beth Dawson, Ph.D., and Robert G. Trapp, MD

ISBN 0-071410-17-1; 2004; 416 pages; softbound