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Article: Intuitive Biostatistics
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- Human Biology
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- June 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright Wayne State University Press Jun 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Intuitive Biostatistics, by Harvey Motulsky. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 386 pp. $24.95 (paperback).
For the most part, introductory statistics textbooks tend to be rather (shall I say it?) formulaic. Basic principles of probability are introduced, followed by a discussion of distributions and hypothesis testing, followed by a cookbook of basic univariate and bivariate methods. Although useful, such texts tend to fall short in the area of application to real-life data, particularly for those students wishing to grasp basic methods and not focus on the underlying mathematics. There has always been a need for introductory statistics texts that focus on application to and ...