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I find all other so-called biostatistics books are helpless
until I have read this book. This book is written based on
Clayton and Hills's past experience in applying statistics
in their studies. They can illustrate most difficult concepts
by very simple examples and words which are totally differnt
than other text and teaching books. For other books, you
can learn a lot of various statistical techniques, but you
cannot understand what is the core idea behind the statistics.
You may get it from this book.

The purpose of this book is to illustrate fundamental concepts involved in statistical epidemiology. It is not a data analysis book. Very few texts in statistics are able to clearly explain difficult concepts (in my opinion). This book is a rare exception (and Agresti, 2002, 2007). For example, it made it easy to understand conditional likelihood. In addition, the text provides problems throughout each section, and provides detailed solutions for each one.