Forthofer, Ron N., 1944-

Biostatistics : a guide to design, analysis, and discovery / Ronald N. Forthofer, Eun Sul Lee, Mike Hernandez. - 2nd ed. - New Delhi : Elsevier / Academic Press, 2011, c2007. - xvii, 502 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

First ed. published: Introduction to biostatistics : guide to design, analysis, and discovery / Ronald N. Forthofer, Eun Sul Lee. -- San Diego : Academic Press, c1995. "This text is supported by a webiste, www.biostat-edu.com/index.html. This site contains data sets, program notes, solutions to example exercises, and links to other resources. The material on this site will be updates as new versions of software become available." - p. vi

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Data and numbers -- 3. Descriptive methods -- 4. Probability and life tables -- 5. Probability distributions -- 6. Study design -- 7. Interval estimation -- 8. Test of hypotheses -- 9. Nonparametric tests -- 10. Analysis of categorical data -- 11. Analysis of survival data -- 12. Analysis of variance -- 13. Linear regression -- 14. Logistic and proportional hazards regression -- 15. Analysis of survey data -- Appendix A: Review of basic mathematic concepts -- Appendix B: Statistical tables -- Appendix C: Selected governmental sources of biostatistical data -- Appendix D: Solutions to selected exercises.

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