Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences [Paperback]

Michael J. Campbell (Author), David Machin (Author), Stephen J. Walters (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470025190 | ISBN-13: 978-0470025192 | Publication Date: August 28, 2007 | Edition: 4

Provides students and practitioners with a clear, concise introduction to the statistics they will come across in their regular reading of clinical papers.

Written by three experts with wide teaching and consulting experience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences, Fourth Edition:

• Assumes no prior knowledge of statistics
• Covers all essential statistical methods
• Completely revised, updated and expanded
• Includes numerous examples and exercises on the interpretation of the statistics in papers published in medical journals

From the reviews of the previous edition:

"The book has several excellent features: it is written by statisticians, is.... well presented, is well referenced.... and is short." THE LANCET

"Many statisticians are concerned at the generally poor standard of statistics in papers published in medical journals. Perhaps this could be remedied if more research workers would spare a few hours to read through Campbell and Machin's book." BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL

"... a simple, interesting and insightful introduction to medical statistics... highly recommended."  STATISTICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL RESEARCH

"Campbell and Machin found the golden mean... this book can be recommended for all students and all medical researchers."  ISCB NEWSLETTER 

Editorial Reviews

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"This is an excellent text for teaching an introductory course in biostatistics and for those interested in self-study." (The American Statistician, November 2008)

“This book seems to me to be a very useful course text for an audience of students in the health sciences.” (Biometrics, December 2008)

"This is an excellent text for teaching an introductory course in biostatistics and for those interested in self-study." (The American Statistician, November 2008)

"…this reviewer recommends without any reservation this book for an introductory course in medical statistics." (MAA Reviews, December 28, 2007)

From the Publisher

Provides busy medical students, nurses and doctors with a concise explanation of the underlying principles in medical statistics, yet keeps techniques in the background. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 344 pages
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; 4 edition (August 28, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470025190
• ISBN-13: 978-0470025192
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #72 in Books > Medical Books > Basic Sciences > Biostatistics

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars terse and with inaccuracies, September 12, 2009

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By the table of contents, I thought this book would be well organized. Many medical statistics books have inaccuracies regarding use of chi-square test, how to analyse small group data, etc. This has inaccuracies in tables (such as recommending yates correction of chisquare test for expected values less than 5) that don't even match the text. It has tests with poor examples and lack of steps for even use of the test under discussion. I would recommend Practical Statistics for Medical Research as a much better textbook for actually understanding and performing statistical tests encountered in the medical field.

2.0 out of 5 stars Riddled with errors, October 30, 2011

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The first 20 pages (all I've read so far) are riddled with grammatical errors and typos (e.g., "One categorical variable recorded was the type of delivery. in five categories as displayed in Table 2.1." (p. 15); "Commonly, one my chose" (p. 17); "If we anticipate that the treatment to reduce some bad outcome (such as deaths) then it may be known as the absolute risk reduction" (p. 17)). I figured I could just ignore these, but then I ran across this on page 18: "...is 20/100,000 = 0.00002". I'm sorry, but this is inexucusable in an introductory textbook. Shame on the publisher for doing such a shabby copy-editing job. These errors don't give me much faith in the material yet to come in the book!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent transaction., September 20, 2009

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Product in good condition and arrived as desribed and in a timely manner. Highly satisfied.