An Introduction to Medical Statistics

Fourth Edition

Martin Bland

• Well-loved and highly trusted account of medical statistics
• Written in a clear logical way by a highly regarded teacher
• Contains many real-life examples drawn from recent and classic medical research
• Exercises, case studies and MCQs help readers to develop their own interpretative skills

New to this Edition:

• New chapters on meta-analysis, missing data, survival analysis, and Baysian methods
• New sections on kappa statistics, principal component and factor analysis, and bootstrap estimates
• End-of chapter exercises focus on developing interpretative skills

An Introduction to Medical Statistics

Fourth Edition

Martin Bland

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Fourth Edition

Martin Bland

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Fourth Edition

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Better medical research for longer, healthier lives

When I started my career as a medical statistician in September 1972, medical research was very different from now. In that month, the Lancet and the British Medical Journal published 61 research reports which used individual participant data, excluding case reports and animal studies. The median sample size was 36 people. In July 2010, I had another look.

Posted on October 19, 2015

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