TY - BOOK AU - Forthofer,Ron N. AU - Lee,Eun Sul AU - Hernandez,Mike TI - Biostatistics: a guide to design, analysis, and discovery SN - 9788131211199 U1 - 570.15195 PY - 2011///, c2007 CY - New Delhi PB - Elsevier / Academic Press KW - Biometry KW - methods KW - Research Design N1 - 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 ER -