The ideal way to develop sound judgment about data applicable to clinical care

• First choice of students, educators, and practitioners
• A thorough, meaningful, and interesting presentation of biostatistics
• Helps students become informed users and consumers of biostatistics

Learn to evaluate and apply statistics in medicine, medical research, and all health-related fields.

• Emphasis on the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and the clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods
• NEW chapter on survey research
• Expanded discussion of logistic regression, the Cox model, and other multivariate statistical methods
• Key Concepts in each chapter pinpoint essential information
• Presenting Problems drawn from studies in the medical literature that illustrate the various statistical methods
• Downloadable NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems
• End-of-chapter exercises
• Multiple-choice final practice exam