Primer of Biostatistics (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback)) By Stanton A. Glantz

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.
Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #184189 in Books
* Published on: 2005-04-15
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 500 pages

Editorial Reviews

Book Info
Univ. of California, San Francisco. Brandon/Hill Medical List first-purchase selection (#575). Introduces the topic in a readable format, assuming no prior knowledge of the subject. This edition includes additional information on multiple comparison testing, a discussion of relative risks and odds ratios, and examples from literature. Softcover. DNLM: Biometry.

From the Back Cover
This menu-driven program performs meaningful analysis of your data quickly and easily. The CD-ROM provides online advice on which test to run, and printing results is as easy as point and click.

Version 5.0 features:
*More statistical tests
*Improved user interface
*Runs on any Windows 95 or higher computer
*Very easy to use
*Statistical advisor helps you decide what test to use

Use this software in concert with Glantz's PRIMER OF BIOSTATISTICS, 5th edition or as a stand-alone. Either way, you'll find its thoroughness surpassed only by its ease-of-use. For further study, see Glantz & Slinker's PRIMER OF APPLIED REGRESSION & ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE, 2nd edition in your bookstore.

About the Author
Stanton A. Glantz, PhD: Professor of Medicine, also Member, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Institute for Health Policy Studies, and Cancer Center, University of California, San Francisco.
Customer Reviews

Horrifying Errors1
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 wasting their time when errors exist in the solutions section. Some are even as basic as addition and subtraction errors in formulating solutions tables. How can you trust this as a mathematical guide when clearly the author has failed at simple calculations? 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. If you seriously haven't been affected by the typos, especially the ones in the solutions, then you're clearly not reading carefully enough. The waste of time to get to the wrong solution when you probably had the right one at hand hours before is deeply annoying.

Overall, this book reflects quite poorly on Glantz who in my opinion, is morally and ethically bound to passing on accurate knowledge when he takes on a challenge as difficult as producing a statistical guide. Addendums, erratas or even a statement acknowledging this would have sufficed for now. 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 state.

Best stats book out there without the errors of the 6th edition5
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.5
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.