Biostatistics: A Methodology for the Health Sciences.

Partial table of contents: Biostatistical Design of Medical Studies. Descriptive Statistics. Statistical Inference: Populations and Samples. Counting Data. Categorical Data: Contingency Tables. Nonparametric, Distribution-Free and Permutation Models: Robust Procedures. Analysis of Variance. Association and Prediction: Multiple Regression Analysis, Linear Models with Multiple Predictor Variables. Multiple Comparisons. Discrimination and Classification. Rates and Proportions. Analysis of the Time to an Event: Survival Analysis. Sample Sizes for Observational Studies. A Personal Postscript. Appendix. Indexes.