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| Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) | 
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Sales Rank: 142331
Category: Book
Author: Wayne W. Daniel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Studio: John Wiley & Sons
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
Label: John Wiley & Sons
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 9
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 960
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.8 x 1.6
ISBN: 0470105828
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.72
EAN: 9780470105825
ASIN: 0470105828
Publication Date: December 31, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Allied health professionals rely on Biostatistics for its high standards of statistical accuracy. It helps them develop a set of statistical tools that are relevant to their field. Now in its ninth edition, the book integrates new applications from several biological science fields throughout the pages. Each chapter now opens with bulleted objectives that highlight the main ideas. Summary boxes of formulae and statistical rules are presented for easy reference and review. Support is also provided for multiple programs such as SPSS, SAS, and STATA, in addition to Minitab. This includes screen captures and technology boxes with step-by-step help. Health professionals will then gain the ability to use technology to analyze data.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
nice introductory text December 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that Wayne Daniel's book is a fairly comprehensive introductory book in biostatistics. I don't agree with the review who thinks it must be used in a second course rather than a first. Thomas Jefferson University uses it as a first text in biostatistics for their nursing students. I wouldn't mind using it in a first course if I didn't have my own text to use.
 Biostatistics review September 30, 2008
Nice biostat book that works as a good reference for people with biostatistical interests. I bought it because I had a biostat course this semester. It's nice, I recommened it.
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Helpful but technical November 10, 2006
This book is extreamly helpful for academic research. It can be somewhat more technical than most people would need.
 Not as impressive as I first thought September 23, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Daniel obviously knows his statistics; but, I wouldnt think that is too helpful for individuals reading or studying from his textbook.
The reasons are numerous, and all these reasons would reduce anyone's chances of solely using this book, or even using it at all.
The textbook is well organized, however Daniel's writing often is pedantic, repetitive (not in the helpful way) and ambiguous at best.
The examples and solutions occassionaly have serious errors in them which affect the overall outcome of the test (A second consideration is that the book is in it's 8th edition!!! therefore such errors are unacceptable for a person such as myself).
An example can be found on page 239 (example 7.3.2). The pooled variance, as calculated by Daniel is approximately off by 100 simply because he didnt give attention to dividing the numerator with the proper pooled D.F of the samples. The chapter ironically was on hypothesis tests, something extremely important to any line of empirically oriented statistics.
In Chapter 8; which is probably the most important chapter in Bistatistics (ANOVAs) he does not mention the relationship between MSW and sample SD. Also, his usage of Summation in formulas often are unnecessarily overcomplicated. Such is not even seen in professional journals.
I did like this textbook regardless of its many shortcomings, its not because I liked the author's style of writing. Its more or less the fact that my lecturer (I assume) used this book heavily in his lectures and so I used it as a supplementary text.
I would suggest, Chap T. Le's Introductory Biostatistics. However he goes too much into nonparametric methods and proportions and doesnt cocentration (to the degree I wanted) on continous data.
More robust and probably cost effect books are :Introductory Statistics for the Life Sciences by Samuels. But the Best book I have ever seen on the subject is "Introductory Biostatistics for the health sciences" By Chernick and Friis. The book is well priced and no portion of this book, I have seen as being useless.
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