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Biostatistics and Epidemiology: A Primer for Health Professionals

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Although billed as a 'primer for health & biomedical professionals', this book is actually too basic for that. Most in the field are not undergrads, and so need the more advanced statistical measuring methods explained more thoroughly (or, in some cases, at all). There is nothing about infective disease, so those measures are also lacking.

This book feels very disorganized, with little help from the index and contents. There are much better books of this type on the market - for example, Primer of Biostatistics by Stanton A. Glantz or even Epidemiology by Leon Gordis. I'd keep looking.

I looked at several introductions on biostats before settling on this text. It is a truly excellent complement to more in-depth treatments you would get in an intensive biostats course, yet remains strong, well-organized and able to stand on its own by straddling that fine line between between being over-simplistic and over-technical. I think the previous review may have unfairly underestimated the book's usefulness by not treating it as what it was meant to be: a primer.