
This edition has been revised throughout, especially in the areas of binary data to deal with relative risk, absolute risk and the evidence-based criteria of numbers need to treat. Each chapter now has a section on reading and reporting statistics, and self testing at the end...

Statistical methods used in the medical literature are becoming increasingly complex, but the software available to apply these methods is becoming easier to use. The result is that consumers of the literature now have to grasp sophisticated methods which may be inappropriately...