Biostatistics : a methodology for the health sciences / Lloyd D. Fisher, Gerald van Belle.

New York : Wiley, [1993], ©1993.

xxii, 991 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

"A Wiley-Interscience publication"

Originally issued in cloth in series: Wiley series in probability and mathematical statistics. Applied probability and statistics

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction to biostatistics -- Biostatistical design of medical studies -- Descriptive statistics -- Statistical inference : populations and samples -- One- and two-sample inference -- Counting data -- Categorical data : contingency tables -- Nonparametric, distribution-free, and permutation models : robust procedures -- Association and prediction : linear models with one predictor variable -- Analysis of variance -- Association and prediction : multiple regression analysis, linear models with multiple predictor variables -- Multiple comparisons -- Discrimination and component analysis and factor analysis -- Rates and proportions -- Analysis of the time to an event : survival analysis -- Sample sizes for observational studies -- A personal postscript.