Primer of Biostatistics: Sixth Edition (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback))
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
Written By: Stanton Glantz
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.727
EAN: 9780071435093
ISBN: 0071435093
Label: McGraw-Hill Medical
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Medical
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 500
Publication Date: 2005-04-15
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
Studio: McGraw-Hill Medical
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Editorial Reviews for Primer of Biostatistics: Sixth Edition (Primer of Biostatistics (Glantz)(Paperback))
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Extremely popular, this student-friendly text presents the practical areas of statistics in terms of their relevance to medicine and the life sciences. Includes many illustrative examples and challenging problems that reinforce the author�s unique and intuitive approach to the subject. The new edition features a new two-color design, examples taken from current biomedical literature, and review questions within each chapter.
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Summary: Horrifying Errors
Comment: Unfortunately, this book is filled with typos and mathematical errors, including the solutions section. A maths book clearly fails by letting its readers down and wasting their time when errors exist in the solutions section. Some are even as basic as addition and subtraction errors in formulating solutions tables. How can you trust this as a mathematical guide when clearly the author has failed at simple calculations? The errors are otherwise just about acceptable in the standard text.
Whilst it reads well in parts, its strengths come from the examples provided, which relate to real life clinical trials and data. However, despite my relatively decent mathematical background, derivations sometimes suddenly lead to a formula or solution out of the blue. The text unfortunately does so in parts too leaving out the systematic approach to the explanation.
I guess you can't have both a true mathematical guide with such clinical emphasis, but for me, the typos just destroy it. If you seriously haven't been affected by the typos, especially the ones in the solutions, then you're clearly not reading carefully enough. The waste of time to get to the wrong solution when you probably had the right one at hand hours before is deeply annoying.
Overall, this book reflects quite poorly on Glantz who in my opinion, is morally and ethically bound to passing on accurate knowledge when he takes on a challenge as difficult as producing a statistical guide. Addendums, erratas or even a statement acknowledging this would have sufficed for now. Without these irritating errors, the strengths of the book really would have been something to rate this book highly for.
Seriously beware. Needs to be pulled of bookshelves in this state.
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Summary: Best stats book out there without the errors of the 6th edition
Comment: The quickest, most accurate stats book out there. Warning: you must read it carefully, you can't really skim. That said, if you do read it carefully, even just the first few chapters, you will truly understand basic stats. Before reading this I didn't get significance or what a t-test really meant. Now I can speak the lingo and critically assess other authors work. Just a great book if you give it a few hours to sink in.
Get the 5th edition, not the 6th, for some reason the 6th is full of typos and errors in the examples.
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Summary: Statistics in plane english.
Comment: If you can not explaine it in plane english you probably don't undestand it yourself. In this book the author present a clear explanation of this technical field in plane english.
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Summary: good material, too many errors
Comment: It's a decent book overall. The material is not too hard to underestand, and there are a lot of medical examples. However, there's nearly a typo on every other page. I wouldn't mind if the mistakes were minor, but it's too much when a third of the solutions are wrong, and statistical tables are incorrect (e.g. 6-8 & 6-9).
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Summary: Non-mathematical introduction to biostatistics
Comment: This is not a treatise in mathematics. The author uses easy to understand examples to explain concepts. Other reviewers have noted typos that altered their learning experience; I have not. Other reviewers report that the presentation of ANOVA is not easily understood; I disagree. Statisticians that are used to the Fisher and Scheffé methods of explaining ANOVA will clearly find this different. I actually found it useful to present ANOVA before the T-test and to use the examples he did. Glantz's text on regression and ANOVA is also very good.
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