Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biostatistics and clinical practice -- How to summarize data -- How to test for differences between groups -- The special case of two groups the t test -- How to analyze rates and proportions -- What does "not significant" really mean? -- Confidence intervals -- How to test for trends -- Experiments when each subject receives more than one treatment -- Alternatives to analysis of variance and the t test based on ranks -- How to analyze survival data -- What do the data really show? -- Appendix A: Computational forms -- Appendix B: Statistical tables and power charts -- Appendix C: Answers to exercises.

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