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Statistics at square one, 10th ed.(Book Review)

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

| July 01, 2003 | Michiels, Bart | COPYRIGHT 2003 British Medical Association. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

T D V Swinscow, M J Campbell. (Pp 158; [pounds sterling]11 .95). BMJ Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7279-1552-5.

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 almost everyone has access to a computer nowadays, many details on the …

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