Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health: .

by Lisa M. Sullivan

Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health, Second Edition provides a fundamental and engaging background for students learning to apply and appropriately interpret biostatistics applications in the field of public health.

Many examples are drawn directly from the author's remarkable clinical experiences with the renowned Framingham Heart Study, making this text practical, interesting, and accessible for those with little mathematical background. The examples are real, relevant, and manageable in size so that students can easily focus on applications rather than become overwhelmed by computations.
The text is accompanied by an online Statistical Computing Using Microsoft Excel (for Mac or PC).
New Features of the Second

• Learning objectives and more practice problems for every chapter
• A new chapter on survival analysis
• A new chapter on nonparametric statistics
• Coverage of sensitivity, specificity, and performance of screening tests connecting probability to real and important applications
• An expansion of the chapter on multivariable methods with more emphasis on interpretation of multivariable regression
• A bank of questions for the audience response system ("clickers") for instructors

Looking for more real-life evidence? Check out Case 4 in Essential Case Studies in Public Health, Putting Public Health into Practice.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Health, School

314 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2007

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, it's a textbook.

It's written with the assumption that the reader has some amount of statistics knowledge, and expands on that knowledge with a focus on, as you might guess, public health and epidemiology. Even though my last previous statistics course was sometime in the first Clinton administration, I found this book's lessons and instructions easy to follow and very helpful in the classroom.

There is an online supplement to the book, but as far as I could find out, it's only accessible if you purchase the physical book. I bought a Kindle version and was unable to use the online component.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

If this book had an answer key then I’d give it 4 stars. I liked the clear layout, easy to follow examples and practice problems were good until they were because I had no means of knowing if I got the answer right. Still did them because the practice was helpful but frustrating as heck!

[Luna · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook is one of the few math related books that I actually read through the whole semester and didn't dread the weekly readings. The formulas were explained and built on in ways I felt comfortable with and could follow. I also found the sample problems worked out in the textbook to be understandable in one read through (a phenomenon I don't usually experience with quantitative textbook examples) without having the process explained by someone else first.