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 | | Primer of Biostatistics: Sixth Edition (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback)) by Stanton Glantz ISBN-10: 9780071435093 ISBN-10: 0-07-143509-3 ISBN-13: 9780071435093 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-143509-3 Paperback 2005-04-15 McGraw-Hill Medical Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Extremely popular, this student-friendly text presents the practical areas of statistics in terms of their relevance to medicine and the life sciences. Includes many illustrative examples and challenging problems that reinforce the author’s unique and intuitive approach to the subject. The new edition features a new two-color design, examples taken from current biomedical literature, and review questions within each chapter. | ||
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Excellent This is a great book. I went from knowing very little about statistics to being able to understand the statistics of research papers very quickly. I have seen a lot of complaints about errors, but I have not found many in the newest edition and printing that Amazon is currently selling. | ||
Horrifying Errors Unfortunately, this book is filled with typos and mathematical errors, including the solutions section. A maths book clearly fails by letting its readers down and results in significant time loss when any errors exist in the solutions section, believe me. Some are even as basic as addition and subtraction errors in formulating solutions tables. The errors are otherwise just about acceptable in the standard text. Whilst it reads well in parts, its strengths come from the examples provided, which relate to real life clinical trials and data. However, despite my relatively decent mathematical background, derivations sometimes suddenly lead to a formula or solution out of the blue. The text unfortunately does so in parts too leaving out the systematic approach to the explanation. I guess you can't have both a true mathematical guide with such clinical emphasis, but for me, the typos just destroy it. Without these irritating errors, the strengths of the book really would have been something to rate this book highly for. Seriously beware. Needs to be pulled of bookshelves in this current state. Sorry. | ||
Best stats book out there without the errors of the 6th edition The quickest, most accurate stats book out there. Warning: you must read it carefully, you can't really skim. That said, if you do read it carefully, even just the first few chapters, you will truly understand basic stats. Before reading this I didn't get significance or what a t-test really meant. Now I can speak the lingo and critically assess other authors work. Just a great book if you give it a few hours to sink in. Get the 5th edition, not the 6th, for some reason the 6th is full of typos and errors in the examples. | ||
Statistics in plane english. If you can not explaine it in plane english you probably don't undestand it yourself. In this book the author present a clear explanation of this technical field in plane english. | ||
good material, too many errors It's a decent book overall. The material is not too hard to underestand, and there are a lot of medical examples. However, there's nearly a typo on every other page. I wouldn't mind if the mistakes were minor, but it's too much when a third of the solutions are wrong, and statistical tables are incorrect (e.g. 6-8 & 6-9). | ||