Medical Statistics at a Glance is directed at undergraduate medical students,
medical researchers, postgraduates in the biomedical disciplines and at pharmaceutical
industry personnel. All of these individuals will, at some time in their professional
lives, be faced with quantitative results (their own or those of others) that will
need to be critically evaluated and interpreted, and some, of course, will have
to pass that dreaded statistics exam! A proper understanding of statistical concepts
and methodology is invaluable for these needs. Much as we should like to fire the
reader with an enthusiasm for the subject of statistics, we are pragmatic. Our aim
is to provide the student and the researcher, as well as the clinician encountering
statistical concepts in the medical literature, with a book that is sound, easy
to read, comprehensive, relevant, and of useful practical application.