Publisher's Synopsis
This text discusses the development of general statistical methodology towards applications in clinical practice and medical research. It uses a wide variety of real data sets and starts with the clinical problem, before moving to the statistical model and finally the practical solution.;It should be of interest to medical researchers, both clinical and non-clinical; clinicians; medical statisticians, including those in the pharmaceutical industry; postgraduate students, especially those doing MSc in medical statistics; and medical students.
