surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiographers, hospital administrators, medical statisticians in training, biochemists, and other professionals allied to medicine. It is suitable as a teaching text for clinicians working towards their professional examinations. It is also suitable for Maters degree courses in medical physics.The third edition has been extensively revised and expanded to include:Clinical trial design and analysis]Multivariate analysisCox proportional hazards modelMcNemar, Wicoxon, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Mantel-Haenszel, and Kappa testsKaplan-Meier survival ratesSensitivity and SpecificitySpecification of treatment success, cure, and quality of lifeRisk specificationCase-control and cohort epidemiological studiesGlossary of termsThe major change has been the advent of personal computing, so people rely on the power of their machine, and its software to number crunch. What is missing is that the software may not use the appropriate statistical error standard - Dick Mould

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