5th Edition
by Stephen J. Walters (Author), Michael J. Campbell (Author), David Machin (Author)
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.
