Introductory Statistics for the Health Sciences

Written by two award-winning statistics educators with more than 50 years of combined classroom and research experience, this text is designed for students taking a prerequisite course or a standard curriculum course in a health sciences program. It offers a rigorous introduction to statistics while providing examples from the health sciences to make the statistics more understandable and relevant. The book lays the necessary foundation before tackling data analysis and uses real data sets throughout.

Lise DeShea is the senior research biostatistician in the College of Nursing at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She has served on the faculty of the University of Kentucky and worked as a statistician for a Medicaid agency. She has conducted research on emergency room utilization, bootstrapping, and forgiveness.

Larry E. Toothaker is an emeritus David Ross Boyd Professor, the highest honor for teaching excellence at the University of Oklahoma. He has conducted research on multiple comparison procedures and nonparametric methods. He retired in 2008 after teaching statistics in the Department of Psychology for 40 years.