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title	:	PDQ Statistics PDQ Series; 2nd Ed.
author	:	Norman, Geoffrey R.
publisher	:	B.C. Decker, Inc.
isbn10 | asin	:	1550090763
print isbn13	:	9781550090765
ebook isbn13	:	9780585231730
language	:	English
subject	Medical statistics, Statistique medicale, Biometry, Biometrie.
publication date	:	1999
lcc	:	RA409.N58 1999eb
ddc	:	610/.72
subject	:	Medical statistics, Statistique medicale, Biometry, Biometrie.

Page i PDQ Statistics

Page ii PDQ SERIES Also in this series: STREINER, NORMAN PDQ EPIDEMIOLOGY PDQ (Pretty Darned Quick)

Page iii PDQ Statistics SECOND EDITION with 43 illustrations Geoffrey R. Norman, Ph.D. Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics David L. Streiner, Ph.D., C. Psych. Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics and of Psychiatry both of McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences Hamilton, Ontario

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Page v To the many people who have made this book both possible and necessary authors of other statistics books

Page vii INTRODUCTION Warning: This is not an introductory textbook in statistics. Introductory textbooks imply that you will go on to intermediate textbooks and then to advanced textbooks. As a result, introductory textbooks usually deal with only a few of the topics in the discipline. So if you want to apply your introductory knowledge of statistics to examining journals, most of the topics used by researchers won't have been covered. Introductory textbooks have a couple of other problems. By and large, they are written by experts with the hope of enticing others to become experts, so they are written in the language of the discipline. Now it is certainly an important goal to understand the jargon; in most cases once you get beyond the language things get a bit simpler. But jargon can be an impediment to learning. Also, beginning textbooks usually are written on the assumption that the only way you can understand an area is to plunge up to your neck in the nitty-gritty details of equation-solving, theorem-proving, or number-juggling. At some level, that's probably legitimate. We're not sure we'd like a surgeon who hasn't actually removed an appendix to perform this procedure even though he or she has a good conceptual grasp of the relevant anatomy and operating procedures. But we are going to assume that all that work is not necessary to understand an area, so we'll try to minimize the use of algebra, calculus, and calculations, and we'll use ordinary English as much as possible.

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