Medical Biostatistics

A. Indrayan and S. Sarmukaddam

Marcel Dekker, New York, 2001

645 pages, US$99.95

 

Excerpts from Book Reviews in the world’s top sources:

 

“The book covers a wealth of information ranging from medical uncertainties to statistical fallacies. We are given a tour of the biostatistical field in clear and intelligent language.” – Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 52 (2003), p. 413

 

“To clinicians and other medical and health professionals, it will be of great help in planning and conducting investigational studies and in critically interpreting the medical literature, which is becoming increasingly statistical” – Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol.  97 (2002), p. 651.

 

“There is a plenty of good advice about practical matters of presentation and interpretation, which, together with the chapter on statistical fallacies, make the book worthwhile reading for the user of biostatistics who may need such guidance.” – Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Vol. 44 (2002), p. 249.

 

“This book by Indrayan and Sarmukaddam contains state-of-the-art statistical methods with examples and references to planning of medical data collection, analyzing and interpretating the data.” – Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol 74 (2004), p. 388.

 

“This book is a serious attempt to medicalise the science of biostatistics, and discuss statistical methods entirely from the perspective of medical and health professionals.” –Resources for Teaching Statistics at www.swin.edu.au/maths/iase/resources.html. (Follow the link and search “Indrayan”)

 

“A very complete book on all aspects of medical biostatistics: probably the most complete book on biostatistics we have seen.” –Analyse-it at www.analyse-it.com/links_books.htm.

 

“Strongly recommended for all professionals and students of medical related disciplines who collect, disseminate or use data in any form…” Biowww at Biowww.net/biobooks_8_biostatistics.html

 

“It also lists indicators for measuring the health of children, adolescents, and adults, and provides methods for assessing the validity of diagnoses, medical tests, and prognoses…” Riskworld at www.riskworld.com/books/topics/health.html

 

“Emphasises the quantitative assessment of uncertainties in health and medical practice” home.ubalt.edu/ntsbarsh/Business-stat/R.htm

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