Primer of Biostatistics 6/e Valuepack (Book and CDROM) [Paperback]

Stanton Glantz (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071447814 | ISBN-13: 978-0071447812 | Publication Date: June 30, 2005 | Edition: 6

Extremely popular, this student-friendly text presents the practical areas of statistics in terms of their relevance to medicine and the life sciences. Includes many illustrative examples and challenging problems that reinforce the author�s unique and intuitive approach to the subject. The new edition features a new two-color design, examples taken from current biomedical literature, and review questions within each chapter..

. The CD-ROM is a menu-driven program that contains everything required to perform meaningful analysis of data and runs statistical tests providing advice on optimal test results..

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This menu-driven program performs meaningful analysis of your data quickly and easily. The CD-ROM provides online advice on which test to run, and printing results is as easy as point and click.

Version 5.0 features:
*More statistical tests
*Improved user interface
*Runs on any Windows 95 or higher computer
*Very easy to use
*Statistical advisor helps you decide what test to use

Use this software in concert with Glantz's PRIMER OF BIOSTATISTICS, 5th edition or as a stand-alone. Either way, you'll find its thoroughness surpassed only by its ease-of-use. For further study, see Glantz & Slinker's PRIMER OF APPLIED REGRESSION & ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE, 2nd edition in your bookstore. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Stanton A. Glantz, PhD: Professor of Medicine, also Member, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco.

Product Details

• Paperback: 500 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 6 edition (June 30, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071447814
• ISBN-13: 978-0071447812
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,063,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a good biostats textbook, October 1, 2003

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Lisa Lambert "Genes rule" (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Primer of Biostatistics (Paperback)

I adopted this book last year for my first year grad level course in biostatistics (for MS Biology students) and my students and I were very unhappy with it. It presents ANOVA in a very unusual (and confusing) way, and it's not easy to find the needed formulas buried in the text. The authors present some tests well (ex. Tukey) and make a very good point about the misuse of the standard error of the mean. The examples and end of the chapter problems are very good for medical applications; however, several of the problems refer to non-existent tables or problems (or ones that are numbered differently) and several provide answers that are just plain wrong! We compiled a list of errors we found and emailed both the first author and the publisher and never received a reply. It was definitely not worth the aggravation! This year we are using Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials. It, too, is flawed, but the students report that finding the appropriate formulas and examples is relatively easy. It doesn't provide enough problems for each chapter to test you knowledge, and the humor is a bit bizarre, but it is a better teaching text.

31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book kicks a**., August 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Primer of Biostatistics (Paperback)

I am a biochemist with a Ph.D. with a poor background in statistics. This is a very useful book that helped me learn to analyze basic biological data. It is easy to use, easy to read, and contains lots of clear examples. I use it every time I write a paper to make sure my statistical analyses are as thorough as possible. It contains lots of explanations of which test you should use and when to use them.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of mistakes in this book, November 12, 2003

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michael Gorman (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Primer of Biostatistics (Paperback)

The concept of this book is good-cut to the chase and give lots of relevent examples. However, the book has innumerable typos which can make it very dificult to follow the text. Some sections are just incomprehensible such as the section on power calculations for the chi square test. Most of the exercises at the end of the chapter are heavy on arithmetic and light on conceptual issues. Often the answers to the exercises are wrong. All these typos are really unacceptable for a fifth edition. I am at Amazon looking for another text to keep as a reference. By way of disclaimer, I am taking the author's course on introductory biostatistics and am doing average.