This popular book is recognised as a standard text for medical researchers and statisticians advising in medicine. Its first edition was reprinted six times. This new edition continues to cover basic principles, techniques of varying complexity, and applied statistical methods, and now contains a new chapter on statistical computation.
"the one to turn to"Community Health Studies "outstanding,... has no rival and is cheap at the price" International Journal of Epidemiology "the strengths of the book are in the quality of the exposition and the extensive use of real examples" Colin Begg, Department of Biostatistics, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, in Statistics in Medicine "Deserves a place on the desks of all medical researchers who are involved in, or need to assess, quantitative research" Dev Med Child Neurol