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Fundamentals of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM)
written by Bernard Rosner
Studio : Duxbury Press
by Duxbury Press
Publisher : Duxbury Press
Released : 2005-02-24
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780534418205
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 16 reviews)
List Price : $174.95
Our Price : $98.95
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FUNDAMENTALS OF BIOSTATISTICS (WITH CD-ROM) leads you through the methods, techniques, and computations necessary for success in the medical field. Every new concept is developed systematically through completely worked out examples from current medical research problems. |
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A book to keep for reference |
I used the book for an introductory course at U. of Maryland and I found myself to come back to this book over again to review the materials and concept. As I go on to learn more about statistics used in data mining of genomic data or reading science papers regarding gene mapping stochastic methods, I find myself go back to this book for reference and review the concepts; sometimes going back reading the concept, I learn something new that I did not understand before. I also find the flow charts that specifies the conditions and assumptions in the book extremely helpful. Also, many comments that the author gives in data analysis are valuable.
Thus far this is the statistics book that I use for reference. I'm hoping that the author will write books in genomics or gene mapping. |
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Waste of my money |
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I too had to purchase this as the official text for my course. I found it very difficult to follow concepts in this book and I had just finished a college intro to statistics course. In the end, I had to rely completely on my professor's explanations. |
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Brand new |
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The item I recieve was great. I was new and I recieved it within five to seven day. |
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Biostatistics |
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Bought this for my first statistics class. Don't like the way the book was written. The information was very hard to understand. Examples were extremely difficult to follow. |
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nice treatment of biostatistics |
Bernard Rosner is a Harvard Professor of Biostatistics. He has written an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate medical school students. It covers the basics of probability and inference including categorical data. Other topics include regression, correlation and survival analysis. It is written for students with no math beyond high school algebra but common mathematical notation is freely used. It includes a diskette with data for examples. Many examples are given to illustrate the concepts and SAS ouput is used to illustrate the results and familiarize the students so that they can interpret statistical output. Many exercises are given at the end of each chapter. Several require use of the data sets on the diskette. I think the author has been careful to try to make the subject understandable to medical students. He also has used the lectures notes that were the basis of the text in courses he taught in the Harvard Medical School. So he knows his audience. A unique feature is the catergorizing of exercises by medical specialty.
Rosner tries to fill an important need and does a good job. He avoids heavy mathematics without turning the text into a cookbook. This is now the fourth edition. So many improvements have been made. I gave it 4 stars. It probably deserves 4 and 1/2 stars.
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