Biostatistics : a methodology fot yhe health sciences . -- 2nd ed. -- wiley-Interscience, 2004. -- (58.1057/B616/2nd ed.)

Contents:

1. Introduction to biostatistics  1

2. Biostatistical Design of Medical Studies  10

3. Descriptive Statistics  25

4. Statistical Inference: Populations and Samples  61

5. One- and Two-Sample Inference  117

6. counting Data  151

7. Categorical Data: Contingency Tables  208

8. Nonparametric, Distribution-Free, and Permutation Models: Robust Procedures  253

9. Association and Prediction: Linear Models with One Predictor Variable  291

10. analysis of Variance  357

11. Association and Prediction: Multiple Regression Analysis and Linear Models with Multiple Predictor Variables  428

12. Multiple Comparisons  520

13. Discrimination and Classification  550

14. Principal component Analysis and Factor Analysis  584

15. Rates and Proportions  640

16. analysis of the Time to an Event: Survival analysis  661

17. Sample Sizes for Observational Studies  709

18. Longitudinal Data analysis  728

]19. Randomized Clinical Trials  766

20. Personal Postscript  787