Chernick, Michael R. : Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals
Michael R. Chernick, PhD, is the Assistant Director of Biostatistics at Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author of Bootstrap Methods: A Practitioner's Guide.
Friis, Robert : California State University, Long Beach
Robert Friis, PhD, is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Science at California State University,
Long Beach. He is senior author of Epidemiology for Public Health Practice and has published more than fifty papers
related to epidemiology.
Summary
A uniquely accessible overview of statistics for the medical industry
Statistics is a vital discipline with growing applications across many industries, especially the ever-evolving
field of health care, where it plays an essential part in the design of new medical devices, the implementation
and analysis of clinical trials, and various epidemiological studies. In today's modern age of computing, both
statistical methodology and its applications are expanding as rapidly as the technology will allow, resulting in
an upsurge of new developments and more effective methodologies.
Introductory Biostatistics for the Health Sciences: Modern Applications Including Bootstrap addresses the need
for a book that presents a basic, accurate, and up-to-date overview of statistical methodology as it applies to
today's health care industry. The authors, both professionals in the areas of medical consulting and epidemiological
research, provide balanced coverage of the latest developments in the industry, liberally illustrated with real-world
examples. Students and professionals will find this text helpful in several important ways:
Presents motivating applications in light of honest theory
Incorporates resampling statistics software throughout
Discusses Outliers by way of detection and treatment
Covers such recent statistical advances as bootstrapping
Includes helpful exercises throughout
A lucid writing style and numerous real-world examples add to the book's appeal and value, and make a complex
subject uniquely accessible to a diverse audience including medical personnel, public health trainees, as well
as nursing and medical students.
Table of Contents
Preface.
What is Statistics? How is it Applied in the Health Sciences?
Defining Populations and Selecting Samples.
Systematic Organization and Display of Data.
Summary Statistics.
Basic Probability.
The Normal Distribution.
Sampling Distributions for Means.
Estimating Population Means.
Tests of Hypotheses.
Inferences Regarding Proportions.
Categorical Data and Chi-Square Tests.
Correlation, Linear Regression, and Logistic Regression.
One-Way Analysis of Variance.
Nonparametric Methods.
Analysis of Survival Times.
Software Packages for Statistical Analysis.
Postscript.
Appendix A. Percentage Points, F-Distribution (α = 0.05).
Appendix B. Studentized Range Statistics.
Appendix C. Quantiles of the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test Statistic.
Appendix D. X2 Distribution.
Appendix E. Table of the Standard Normal Distribution.
Appendix F. Percentage Points, Student's t Distribution.
Appendix G. Answers to Selected Exercises.
Index.
