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Clinical Biostatistics: An Introduction to Evidence-Based Medicine

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In the medical device and pharmaceutical industries as well as in academic medical research results of well-controlled clinical trials and other valid statistical and epidemiologic studies fall under the category of evidence-based medicine. I think this is to contrast it with medical practice that is based on anecdotal and other practical experience which has not been subjected to scientific hypothesis testing.

Dunn and Everitt are excellent writers who have written a number of fine books on statistical methods particularly very applied books with applications using common statistical software. This book does a good job of covering the basic issues in medical trials and the key statistical methods. It does not appear to cover any of the observational studies and other epidemiological work that could be part of such a book. But what it does cover it covers very well.