Primer of Biostatistics: Sixth Edition - Softcover

Glantz, Stanton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071435093 ISBN 13: 9780071435093

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical, 2005

Synopsis

Extremely popular, this student-friendly text presents the practical areas of statistics in terms of their relevance to medicine and the life sciences. It includes many illustrative examples and challenging problems that reinforce the author's unique and intuitive approach to the subject. The new edition features a new two-color design, examples taken from current biomedical literature, and review questions within each chapter.

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From the Publisher:

2-color graphs better illustrate principles

New, 2-color design

Additional examples taken from current biomedical literature

Unique, intuitive approach to biostatistics

Review questions in each chapter reinforce principles

Summary sections in each chapter highlight most important concepts

CD-ROM available with the book or alone -menu driven program contains everything needed to run statistical tests

About the Author:

Stanton Glantz is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco, where he conducts research on tobacco control and cardiology. He is author or co-author of over 300 scientific papers and nine books in addition to Primer of Biostatistics, 7th ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2012) and Primer of Applied Regression & Analysis of Variance, 2nd ed. (McGraw-Hill, 2001). He wrote the first major review (published in Circulation) which identified involuntary smoking as a cause of heart disease, and the landmark July 19, 1995 issue of JAMA on the Brown and Williamson documents, which showed that the tobacco industry knew 30 years ago that nicotine is addictive and that smoking causes cancer. His work has attracted considerable attention from the tobacco industry, which has sued the University of California twice (unsuccessfully) in an effort to stop Professor Glantz's work.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education / Medical
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0071435093
• ISBN 13: 9780071435093
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 544