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Health and Numbers: A Problems-Based Introduction to Biostatistics

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+ Note: This review was originally written for another book from this author, but touches on my experience with this text as well.

It is mind-boggling how one can have so many mistakes in a textbook like this. This book was required for our Biostatistics II class, and I am really displeased by all of the mistakes. What is the worst offense is that some of the answers for test questions are wrong. For example, the one way ANOVA problem 7.21 has the wrong F-statistic: the wrong answer. Others in the class have complained about this text as well. This is simply amazing to me, and leaves me not trusting much of the text in this book.

His other book "Health and Numbers" is just as terrible; the professor that used that book for class made a list of the mistakes they found, and us students in that class found many more along the way. I ran into another statistics book that takes all of the procedures step-by-step and really made it simple for me. This book, and his other are not recommended.

As far as a statistics book goes, this is downright awful. Some concepts are presented in as little as one sentence which should really be expanded upon. This was a required textbook for my graduate level biostats class. After reading some of the chapters and still not being able to complete the problems, I finally gave up and only used it to get the problems I had to do for homework. I used a combination of a different statistics textbook and the internet to complete the problems. Other students in my class complained about this book as well.