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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on May 12, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp106
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American Journal of Epidemiology Published by Oxford University Press 2009.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Book Review

Basic Biostatistics for Geneticists and Epidemiologists: A Practical Approach

By Robert C. Elston and William D. Johnson

John E. Hokanson

Department of Epidemiology, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045

(e-mail: john.hokanson@ucdenver.edu)

ISBN: 978-0-470-02489-8, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom (Telephone: 44-1243-779777, Fax: 44-1243-775878, E-mail: customer@wiley.co.uk), 2008, 384 pp., $130 Hardcover

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To be an informed reader in the biomedical sciences, it is essential to have a sound grasp of the concepts related to statistics. It is less relevant that one can actually perform a particular statistical test given increasing specialization in biomedical research. The purpose of Basic Biostatistics for Geneticists and Epidemiologists: A Practical Approach is to provide the necessary framework for understanding a wide variety of common statistical tests without all the technical . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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