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Biostatistics in Public Health 3e TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Study Designs
- Chapter 3 Quantifying the Extent of Disease
- Chapter 4 Summarizing Data Collected in the Sample
- Chapter 5 The Role of Probability
- Chapter 6 Confidence Interval Estimates
- Chapter 7 Hypothesis Testing Procedures
- Chapter 8 Power and Sample Size Determination
- Chapter 9 Multivariable Methods
- Chapter 10 Nonparametric Tests
- Chapter 11 Survival Analysis
- Chapter 12 Data Visualization
Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Third Edition provides a fundamental and engaging background for students learning to apply and appropriately interpret biostatistics applications in the field of public health. Many examples are drawn directly from the author’s remarkable clinical experiences with the renowned Framingham Heart Study, making this text practical, interesting, and accessible for those with little mathematical background. The examples are real, relevant, and manageable in size so that students can easily focus on applications rather than become overwhelmed by computations.
Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Third Edition
