This applications-orientated book discusses the major updated methods in the analysis of survival data. It covers both parametric and nonparametric methods, with emphasis on the latter's more recent developments applied to health research.

Like its two successful previous editions, Health & Numbers: A Problems-Based Introduction to Biostatistics, Third Edition, is the only fully problems-based introduction to biostatistics and offers a concise introduction to basic statistical concepts and reasoning at a level suitable for a broad spectrum of students and professionals in medicine and the allied health fields. This book has always been meant for use by advanced students who have not previously had an introductory biostatistics course - material often presented in a one-semester course - or by busy professionals who need...

This new edition continues to provide basic, comprehensive coverage of key methods in categorical data analysis with multiple variables. Maintaining the same nontechnical, user-friendly approach, coverage has been added to the" Second Edition "to take the topic of categorical data analysis into a more applied direction. Coverage begins with an introduction to the basic methods and applications of contingency tables and loglinear models. Subsequent chapters examine analytical methods for matched data and count data, the Mantel-Haenszel method, Kappa statistics, ordinal risks, odds ratio...