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Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences, 10th Edition

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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 biostatistics, teaching methods, and technologies.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Biostatistics

Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics

Chapter 3: Some Basic Probability Concepts

Chapter 4: Probability Distributions

Chapter 5: Some Important Sampling Distributions

Chapter 6: Estimation

Chapter 7: Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 8: Analysis of Variance

Chapter 9: Simple Linear Regression and Correlation

Chapter 10: Multiple Regression and Correlation

Chapter 11: Regression Analysis: Some Additional Techniques

Chapter 12: The Chi-Square Distribution and the Analysis of Frequencies

Chapter 13: Nonparametric and Distribution-Free Statistics

Chapter 14: Survival Analysis

Chapter 15: Vital Statistics *Online Only*

New To This Edition

ANOVA/Logistic Regression: Chapter 8 has been revised to expand coverage of ANOVA and linear regression, as well as strengthening the ties between it and Chapters 9-11.
Survival Analysis/Vital Statistics: Survival analysis coverage has been expanded to an entire chapter.
Solutions: Increased numbers of full write-ups of the results obtained in examples and problems to provide instructors and students with more complete information.
Online Examples: Online examples using several technologies (SPSS, SAS, MINITAB, R) to show instructors and students how each technology can be used to solve problems.

Hallmark Features

Real-world practice through examples and exercises using data from actual research projects and reports.
Highlighting of main ideas with bulleted objectives at the start of each chapter.
Screen captures and technology boxes with step-by-step help.