BookLisa M. Sullivan.
Summary: "Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Fourth Edition provides a fundamental and engaging background for students learning to apply and appropriately interpret biostatistics applications in the field of public health. Many examples are drawn directly from the author's remarkable clinical experiences with the renowned Framingham Heart Study, making this text practical, interesting, and accessible for those with little mathematical background. The examples are real, relevant, and manageable in size so that students can easily focus on applications rather than become overwhelmed by computations. The Fourth Edition has been thoroughly updated, and now offers a new chapter on career opportunities in biostatistics and new case studies focused on COVID-19 within each chapter." -- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction
Study designs
Quantifying the extent of disease
Summarizing data collected in the sample
The role of probability
Confidence interval estimates
Hypothesis testing procedures
Power and sample size determination
Multivariable methods
Nonparametric tests
Survival analysis
Data visualization
Careers in biostatistics