Basic & Clinical Biostatistics (LANGE Basic Science)

The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care.

*First choice of students, educators, and practitioners

*A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics

*Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics

" ... Readers may 'learn' and then 'do' immediately ... I learned a lot from this book."

—Online review of the Third Edition

Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.

*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

*Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information

*Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods

*CD-ROM with NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems

*End-of-chapter exercises

*Multiple-choice final practice exam

Beth Dawson, PhD, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL

Robert G. Trapp, MD, Springfield, IL