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Fundamentals of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM) |
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Manufacturer: Duxbury Press
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 570.15195
EAN: 9780534418205
ISBN: 0534418201
Label: Duxbury Press
Manufacturer: Duxbury Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 896
Publication Date: 2005-02-24
Publisher: Duxbury Press
Studio: Duxbury Press
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FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOSTATISTICS (WITH CD-ROM) leads you through the methods, techniques, and computations necessary for success in the medical field. Every new concept is developed systematically through completely worked out examples from current medical research problems.
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Summary: Brand new
Comment: The item I recieve was great. I was new and I recieved it within five to seven day.
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Summary: Very poor
Comment: Funny how the author describes this book as designed for people who have "no previous background in statistics." I have taken three stats classes in the past, so I thought this would be well understood and well written. Not so! My professor at the Rollins School of Public Health here at Emory University also apparently thought this chunk of wood wasn't as poorly written and poorly explained as it is in reality. The author throws definitions out there w/o explaining them, and just breezes right on through to incomprehension. His explanations are derivations of formulas!? On page 14 he is already talking about the geometric mean and antilogs as if they were an old friend. Most of people I talked with in my class about the book commented that they couldn't even use it! This is the first book I've reviewed for Amazon, and I felt compelled to warn people about it. If you're a stats major, fine, but if you need a well written book to instruct you, however, this isn't it. Professor Rosner, you better bring yourself down from the clouds at Harvard.
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Summary: Biostatistics
Comment: Bought this for my first statistics class. Don't like the way the book was written. The information was very hard to understand. Examples were extremely difficult to follow.
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Summary: nice treatment of biostatistics
Comment: Bernard Rosner is a Harvard Professor of Biostatistics. He has written an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate medical school students. It covers the basics of probability and inference including categorical data. Other topics include regression, correlation and survival analysis. It is written for students with no math beyond high school algebra but common mathematical notation is freely used. It includes a diskette with data for examples. Many examples are given to illustrate the concepts and SAS ouput is used to illustrate the results and familiarize the students so that they can interpret statistical output. Many exercises are given at the end of each chapter. Several require use of the data sets on the diskette. I think the author has been careful to try to make the subject understandable to medical students. He also has used the lectures notes that were the basis of the text in courses he taught in the Harvard Medical School. So he knows his audience. A unique feature is the catergorizing of exercises by medical specialty.
Rosner tries to fill an important need and does a good job. He avoids heavy mathematics without turning the text into a cookbook. This is now the fourth edition. So many improvements have been made. I gave it 4 stars. It probably deserves 4 and 1/2 stars.
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Summary: Better books available
Comment: I was in a sense forced to purchase this text as it was the official text for my class. Unfortunately, if you are a researcher just trying to obtain a basic understanding of the field of statistics, this is not the book for you. There is very little that is understandable to a beginner or even to someone with some basic knowledge in the field. This book is purely meant for the statistican. Norman and Streiner's text on biostatistics and Andy Field's text on Statistics and SPSS are written in plain language. They are easy to understand and get the concepts across with only the bare minimum of formulas thrown around. This book's primary usefulness is its comprehensiveness, but that only goes so far when the text is just unintelligible to most of us mere mortals.
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