American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on September 22, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(10):1317-1318; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp312
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Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers: A Simple Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Data, 2nd Edition
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ISBN: 978-0-521-84952-4, Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 212-924-3900, Fax: 212-691-3239, Website: http://cambridge.org/us/), 2009, 522 pp., $126.00 Hardcover
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The second edition of this book updates methods and applications that have proven to be valuable in conducting modern biomedical research. Its overarching goal is to provide information and examples to help train biomedical researchers in the novel biostatistical methods that have blossomed over the past 40 years in response to new complexities and ever-larger data sets. Use of novel biostatistical methods has been facilitated by the growth of computational