Review Praise for the First Edition The book covers a wealth of information ranging from medical uncertainties to statistical facilities.  a tour of the biostatistical field in clear and intelligent language Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 52, 2003 To clinicians and other medical and health professionals, it will be of great help in planning and conducting investigational studies and in critically interpreting the medical literature, which is becoming increasingly statistical Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 97, 2002 There is plenty of good advice about practical matters of presentation and interpretation, which, together with the chapter on statistical fallacies, make the book worthwhile reading for the user of biostatistics who may need such guidance Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics, Vol. 44, 2002 This book contains state-of-the-art statistical methods with examples and references to planning of medical data collection, analyzing and interpreting the data Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Vol. 74, 2004 This book is a serious attempt to medicalise the science of biostatistics and discuss statistical methods entirely from the perspective of medical and health professionals Resources for Teaching Statistics A very complete book on all aspects of medical biostatistics: probably the most complete book on biostatistics we have seen. Analyse-it Produc