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SELECTED READINGS
Standard Statistical Computer Packages
Instat, GraphPad Software, San
Diego, California.
A simple, very user-friendly program with good built-in help.
JMP, SAS Institute, Cary, North
Carolina.
The SAS group's simple stand-alone program. Though relatively
simple when compared with the full SAS program, its completeness leads to some complexity
for the beginner.
SPSS, SPSS Inc, Chicago, Illinois.
A full featured, expensive, and very powerful program that is
accessible to the nonprofessional statistics user. The help files are usable and
exhaustive.
SAS, SAS Institute, Cary, North
Carolina.
Expensive, very complex, very powerful. This standard package
of programs is the one most commonly used by professional biomedical statisticians.
Not for the amateur.
Selected Introductory Statistics Texts
Altman D: Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Boca
Raton, Florida, CRC Press, 1990.
Well organized and complete. A good course textbook.
Dawson B: Basic & Clinical Biostatistics. New York, McGraw-Hill,
2000.
Suitable for self-study, fairly complete.
Feinstein A: Clinical Epidemiology. Philadelphia, WB Saunders,
1985.
Enormously insightful about the structure and problems of clinical
research.
Glantz S: Primer of Biostatistics. New York, McGraw-Hill,
2001.
Very clear, very popular; also has a very simple-to-use statistics
program that may be purchased with the book.
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