Essentials of Medical Statistics, 2nd Revised edition--------------------------------------------------Blackwell Publishing is delighted to announce that this book has beenHighly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition. Here isthe judges' summary of this book: This is a technical book on a technicalsubject but presented in a delightful way. There are many books onstatistics for doctors but there are few that are excellent and thisis certainly one of them. Statistics is not an easy subject to teachor write about. The authors have succeeded in producing a book thatis as good as it can get. For the keen student who does not want abook for mathematicians, this is an excellent first book on medicalstatistics. Essential Medical Statistics is a classic amongst medicalstatisticians. An introductory textbook, it presents statistics witha clarity and logic that demystifies the subject, while providing acomprehensive coverage of advanced as well as basic methods. The secondedition of Essential Medical Statistics has been comprehensively revisedand updated to include modern statistical methods and modern approachesto statistical analysis, while retaining the approachable and non-mathematicalstyle of the first edition. The book now includes full coverage ofthe most commonly used regression models, multiple linear regression,logistic regression, Poisson regression and Cox regression, as wellas a chapter on general issues in regression modelling. In addition,new chapters introduce more advanced topics such as meta-analysis,likelihood, bootstrapping and robust standard errors, and analysisof clustered data. Aimed at students of medical statistics, medicalresearchers, public health practitioners and practising cliniciansusing statistics in their daily work, the book is designed as botha teaching and a reference text. The format of the book is clear withhighlighted formulae and worked examples, so that all concepts arepresented in a simple, practical and easy-to-understand way. The secondedition enhances the emphasis on choice of appropriate methods withnew chapters on strategies for analysis and measures of associationand impact. Essential Medical Statistics is supported by a web siteat www.blackwellpublishing.com/essentialmedstats. This useful onlineresource provides statistical datasets to download, as well as samplechapters and future updates.