The 5th edition of this popular introduction to statistics
for the medical and health sciences has undergone a significant
revision, with several new chapters added and examples refreshed
throughout the book. Yet it retains its central philosophy to explain
medical statistics with as little technical detail as possible, making
it accessible to a wide audience.
Helpful multi-choice exercises are included at the end of each chapter,
with answers provided at the end of the book. Each analysis technique is
carefully explained and the mathematics kept to minimum. Written in a
style suitable for statisticians and clinicians alike, this edition
features many real and original examples, taken from the authors'
combined many years' experience of designing and analysing clinical
trials and teaching statistics.
Students of the health sciences, such as medicine, nursing, dentistry,
physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and radiography should find the
book useful, with examples relevant to their disciplines. The aim of
training courses in medical statistics pertinent to these areas is not
to turn the students into medical statisticians but rather to help them
interpret the published scientific literature and appreciate how to
design studies and analyse data arising from their own projects.
However, the reader who is about to design their own study and collect,
analyse and report on their own data will benefit from a clearly written
book on the subject which provides practical guidance to such issues.
The practical guidance provided by this book will be of use to
professionals working in and/or managing clinical trials, in academic,
public health, government and industry settings, particularly medical
statisticians, clinicians, trial co-ordinators. Its practical approach
will appeal to applied statisticians and biomedical researchers, in
particular those in the biopharmaceutical industry, medical and public
health organisations.
