Publisher's Synopsis
This work provides step by step instruction on the basic tools of the statistician. Examples from medicine clearly illustrate well-used techniques such as non-parametric tests and correlation.;This edition has new chapters on survival analysis and design of studies. It includes methods specially adapted for calculators and brings the reader up to date with common techniques, such as stem and leaf plots, hair-whisker plots and unequal variance T-tests.;Also covering the common questions asked and offering exercises for self-testing, this work has proved valuable in demystifying the whole subject of statistics in medicine.
