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Medical Biostatistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) [Hardcover]

Abhaya Indrayan (Author), S.B. Sarmukaddam (Author)
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0824704266 978-0824704261 January 15, 2001 1st
Medical Biostatistics comprehensively explains biostatistical concepts and methods in an easy-to-understand nonmathematical language with the help of many real-life examples, data sets, and figures. This is an ideal self-study guide for medical and health practitioners, including those taking membership examinations for professional bodies, and students in elementary and middle-level biostatistics courses!

Utilizing medical situations that emphasize biostatistical methods, this concise reference encapsulates the principal concepts and methods of biostatistics. It details the critical stages of planning, conducting, and interpreting data from health investigations in clinical, laboratory, or field settings, that promote reliable results from conceptualization to conclusion.

Containing over 500 references to the literature, equations, tables, drawings, as well as lists of notations, an extensive index of terms, and a summary of methods, Medical Biostatistics is a practical reference for biostatisticians and other applied statisticians, epidemiologists, medical and health practitioners and researchers, nursing and clinical professionals, nutritionists and medical technicians. It also forms an outstanding text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

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  • Hardcover: 645 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 1st edition (January 15, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0824704266
  • ISBN-13: 978-0824704261
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,424,978 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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PhD from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH;
Have been Visiting Research Scientist at University of Massachusetts at Amherst
and Visiting Faculty at the Ohio State University;
Provided statistical consultancy to alarge number of health projects of the World Health Organization, the World Bank and UNAIDS;
Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (first Indian Biostatistician to get this honor), National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society;

More than 200 publications.

For details, please visit my webpage http://indrayan.weebly.com. For the book Medical Biostatistics, please visit http://MedicalBiostatistics.synthasite.com. This website contains all the data tables in Excel format for ready use (for reworking the analysis or for further analysis), and several other useful information.

If you are looking for an elementary book, please see Biostatistics for Medical, Nursing and Pharmacy Students, 2006, Prentice-Hall of India.

Please continue to see http://MedicalBiostatistics.synthasite.com for exercises and solutions, plus methodological updates such as for checking Gaussianity; simple explanation of regression through origin; Type I, II and III sum of squares; ROC curve; Cochran's Q; area under the concentration curve; Dunnett's test, and several others.

Join me for online courses at statistics.com. Biostatistics-1 begins August 6, 2010 and Biostatistics-2 on September 12, 2010.

A new website http://www.MedicalBiostatistics.com has been launched that will contain alot of useful information in course of time.

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Statistics made medical, April 13, 2001
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This review is from: Medical Biostatistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) (Hardcover)
I have long been looking for a book that makes biostatistics simple and readable to medical professionals. This book on Medical Biostatistics by Indrayan and Sarmukaddam (Marcel Dekker) is a very sincere attempt in making the subject of biostatistics look like a medical discipline. This is one of the objectives stated in the book, and seems to have been very adequately achieved. The language used is friendly to the medical fraternity. A large number of statistical methods have been discussed that are commonly used in medicine and health. Mathematics is minimal and explantions appeal to the common sense. Statistical fallacies are also discussed. Strongly recommended for all professionals and students of medical related disciplines who collect, disseminate or use data in any form.
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5.0 out of 5 stars If there's a better book on the subject..., May 15, 2010
This review is from: Medical Biostatistics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) (Hardcover)
...then I'd like to know what it is.

Absolutely superb textbook.
Extremely well researched with numerous examples from real case studies.
It's actually fun to read and educational at the same time.

None better, plain and simple.
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