Fundamentals of Biostatistics Study Guide:

By Bernard Rosner

Book Overview

This edition of RosnerUs text offers a mastery of methods most often used in medical research, with specific reference to actual medical literature and actual medical research. The approach minimizes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534371205
• ISBN13: 9780534371203
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Thomson Brooks/Cole
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

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...

Indispensable book

This book is a necesary complement for epidemiology, and basic investigatigation. The chapter's organization is very adecuate for novice and experienced. Every chapter has an easy form to learn the content. The exercises are very congruent with the objetive of evry theme.

Fundamentals of Biostatistics by Rosner

This is an easy-to-read volume on the implementation of statistics for medicinal applications. The author describes the following: - measures of location i.e. medium white blood counts - properties of the standard deviation and special case analyses - graphic methods - laws of probability - gynecological problems - demographic problems and inference - hypothesis testing and confidence interval analysis - goodness of fit...

For a textbook, it is darn good!

People usually dislike textbooks. Textbooks tend to be voluminous and expansive on the simplest of topics. Not so with this book. Even after 10 years, this textbook (much older edition) still is my handy reference. Certainly, this would be a starter text in statistics, but it covers the most essential and most frequently used facets of the topic very well. The examples and illustrations are very well presented and the concepts...

If you really want to learn statistics, this is the book!

I used this book while pursuing my master's degree in epidemiology. I really enjoyed it and as a result, today I'm pursuing my DrPH in biostatistics. If you are really into understanding statistics, this is your book. If you are only interested in passing a course and surviving the ODDS, I refer you to Daniels' book, it's simpler and lets just say...less complicated.