Biostatistics: Basic Concepts and Methodology for the Health Sciences

Description

This Tenth Edition of Biostatistics maintains its predecessors’ comprehensive approach to Biostatistics as it is used in the biological sciences. Successfully utilized by both statisticians and practitioners, Biostatistics is an algebra-based text geared towards the advanced undergraduate and graduate student. This new edition has been revised to more closely align with the modern practice of biostatics, teaching methods and technologies.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Acquainted with Biostatistics
2. Strategies for Understanding the Meanings of Data
3. Probability: The Basis of Statistical Inference
4. Probabilistic Features of Certain Data Distributions
5. Probabilistic Features of the Distributions of Certain Sample Statistics
6. Using Sample Data to Make Estimates About Population Parameters
7. Using Sample Statistics to Test Hypotheses About Population Parameters
8. Statistical Inference and the Analysis of Data Variability
9. Statistical Inference and the Relationship Between Two Variables
10. Statistical Inference and the Relationships Among Three or More Variables
11. Additional Techniques for the Analysis of Relationships Among Variables
12. Analysis of Frequency Data: An Introduction to the Chi-Square Distribution
13. Special Techniques for Use When Population Parameters and/or Population Distributions are Unknown
14. Survival Analysis
15. Vital Statistics Online Only

Author Biography

Dr. Wayne W. Daniel is a Professor Emeritus of Decision Sciences at Georgia State University.