Product Code: 1391006851

The second edition of this highly successful, user-friendly book, continues to provide an excellent foundation in statistics for the uninitiated, making it ideal for both students and professionals in health care and medicine who may be either approaching the subject for the first time, or who want to refresh their understanding of any one of a number of statistical concepts and applications. As with the first edition, the informal and light-hearted style, and the author’s avoidance of too much mathematics, makes the material very accessible. The addition of two new chapters, one on survival analysis, the other on systematic review and meta-analysis, significantly improves the coverage offered.

New in this edition: Measuring survival: Kaplan-Meier survival curves; comparing survival in two or more groups.Hazard ratios and the Cox regression model. Systematic review: methods and problems; combining results - meta-analytic methods.