Primer of Biostatistics: Sixth Edition

The quickest, most accurate stats book out there. Warning: you must read it carefully, you can't really skim. That said, if you do read it carefully, even just the first few chapters, you will truly understand basic stats. Before reading this I didn't get significance or what a t-test really meant. Now I can speak the lingo and critically assess other authors work. Just a great book if you give it a few hours to sink in. Get the 5th edition, not the 6th, for some reason the 6th is full of typos and errors in the examples.

This is not a treatise in mathematics. The author uses easy to understand examples to explain concepts. Other reviewers have noted typos that altered their learning experience; I have not. Other reviewers report that the presentation of ANOVA is not easily understood; I disagree. Statisticians that are used to the Fisher and Scheffé methods of explaining ANOVA will clearly find this different. I actually found it useful to present ANOVA before the T-test and to use the examples he did. Glantz's text on regression and ANOVA is also very good.

After buying and reading a number of crummy statistics books I stumbled across this one which is a lifesaver I will keep FOREVER. Clearly written and very hands-on. THIS is the book if you need to DO statistical analysis RIGHT NOW - and know what it MEANS. I should add that I'm an engineer, not a biologist or physician, but the techniques and information are suitably general for ANYONE who needs statistics to do their work.

Truly one of the best bio-statistics books available. Should be required reading for all physicians!

I am a biochemist with a Ph.D. with a poor background in statistics. This is a very useful book that helped me learn to analyze basic biological data. It is easy to use, easy to read, and contains lots of clear examples. I use it every time I write a paper to make sure my statistical analyses are as thorough as possible. It contains lots of explanations of which test you should use and when to use them.