An Introduction to Medical Statistics continues to be an invaluable textbook for the medical students, doctors, medical researchers, nurses and members of professions allied to medicine as well as those concerned with medical data.
The material covered in this text includes all the statistical work that would be required for a course in medicine. It includes the design of clinical trials and epidemiological studies, data collection, summarizing and presenting data, probability, standard error, confidence intervals and significance tests, techniques of data analysis including multifactorial methods and the choice of statistical method, problems of medical measurement and diagnosis, vital statistics, and calculation of sample size.
The new edition describes the design and analysis of medical research studies in a clear and user friendly manner.