Biostatistical Analysis

I have found this book more approachable and user friendly than Sokal and Rohlf. Zar is an excellent desk reference, and has solved a number of statistical problems for me. I reccomend it to anybody who regularly uses statistics in a biological context.

You will not go wrong with this book. It is the best generalbiostatistical book in print. You will need to study it for it is not a cook book, but it is well written. An absolute must book.

This book and BIOMETRY by Sokal and Rohlf are the two standard statistics books that live on the shelves of most biological researchers. Zar makes methods and interpretations of statistical analyses accessible and understandable. There are suffient numbers of statistical tests in the text to cover most of my statistical needs. The book also includes its own tables of critical values (something that BIOMETRY does not -- there's a paperback companion book of tables for that book). Zar also includes examples that are easy to follow, as well as enough mathematical background to allow one to understand the hypothetical and much of the mathematics behind the statistical methods.I typically turn to Zar first when I have a statistical question. This book continues to be a highly prized ally of mine in the data analysis game. I highly recommend this book to all biology grad students and researchers. It's well worth the price -- an investment that pays off!5 stars, no doubt about it.

This textbook covers a very broad spectrum of biostatistics. It is the best reference for design and analysis of experiments, regardless of the application. This opinion is coming from a person with an MS in statistics. -Brian Mayeux statistician for NIOSH (CDC).

The author knows the difficulties found by researchers when they need to analyse their data. He writes about all topics of statistical analysis in a very simple way, and the solved examples makes our understanding smooth. He knows how to drive us in such a way that analyzing biomedical data becomes compreehensible and easy! A book that biologists and people from the biomedical area must consult everyday! This book should be translated to other languages so much more people could learn from it! Lucia M. Singer, M.Sc. Ph.D.