Biostatistics: for the biological and health sciences /
The ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu famously wrote: A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. This text will lead you, step by step, on a journey through the important concepts of biostatistics. If youre reading this, youve already taken the first step! Thankfully, our journey will be much less physically taxing than a journey of a thousand miles and will require only the use of your feet for determining skewness (see page 75). Statistics permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, and its role has become particularly important in the biological, life, medical, and health sciences. From opinion polls to clinical trials in medicine and analyses of big data from health applications, statistics influences and shapes the world around us. Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences forges the relationship between statistics and our world through extensive use of a wide variety of real applications that bring life to theory and methods
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E-books 7-24
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