Description

This book of “Methods in Biostatistics for Medical Students” continues to be a 'must-have' textbook for anyone who needs a clear logical guide to the subject. This book is written in an easy-to-understand style and packed with real life examples, the text clearly explains the statistical principles used in the medical literature. The book focuses on how to interpret and analyse statistics for clinical practice. Using extracts from real studies, the author illustrates how data can be employed correctly and incorrectly in medical research helping readers to evaluate the statistics they encounter and appropriately implement findings in clinical practice. This is an ideal book for medical students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, doctors, medical researchers, and healthcare professionals, as well as all those concerned with medical data. The book explains the concepts involved in arriving at the sample size and also a quick solution to the estimation of sample size. Questions given in each chapter will help the learner to gauge the level of understanding of the principles and applications. The book provides a modern look at introductory Biostatistical concepts and the associated computational tools using the latest developments in computation and visualization in the R language environment.