Provides students and practitioners with a clear, concise introduction to the statistics they will come across in their regular reading of clinical papers. Written by three experts with wide teaching and consulting experience, Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences, Fourth Edition: [...]

The same careful rigour imposed on the design of phase III randomised controlled trials is not always applied to medical research in other areas such as trials conducted at earlier stages of drug development. With the emphasis that is now placed on evidence--based medicine, such care and rigour wil[...]

Intends to demystify the world of statistics for health care professionals. This title features material in the areas of binary data to deal with relative risk, absolute risk, and the evidence-based criteria of numbers needed to treat. It includes chapters that contain a section on reading and repor[...]

Stephen Campbell and Michael Cole introduce Italian Renaissance art in this easy-to-follow chronological survey. Drawing on the most recent scholarship, their book makes new approaches accessible to students and non-specialist readers, telling the story of art in the great centres of Rome, Florence [...]