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Statistics at square one, 10th edn: T D V Swinscow, M J Campbell. (Pp 158; 11.95). BMJ Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1552-5.

2003; BMJ; Volume: 57; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/jech.57.7.542-b

1470-2738

B. Michiels,

Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

This book provides a nice overview of many basic statistical methods. It is clearly focused to be used by, for example, epidemiologists who need some statistical guidance. Topics that are discussed include: descriptive statistics, testing of hypotheses/construction of confidence intervals both for continuous as well as binary data, non-parametric statistics, linear regression, survival analysis. There is a big change in this 10th edition, compared with the previous editions: because …