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A recent request to a statistical professional body by a doctor seeking help with analysing data they had collected was greeted with derision by some of the members of that body. ... The doctor in question may have been better served by simply purchasing this wide-ranging and accessible book. Medical students would also appreciate the range of topics addressed. ... I think consultant statisticians would also appreciate the refreshers/introductions to statistical techniques and the SAS code for each. Indeed SAS code is liberally scattered throughout the text, and a couple of SAS macros are referred to in the meta-analysis chapter. ... The text is supported by ten pages of references and a sizeable index. The code and example data sets can be downloaded from the SAS website. -Alice Richardson, International Statistical Review (2013), 81 Applied Medical Statistics Using SAS is a thorough documentation of statistical methods, inclusive of medical data sets and SAS code. The book would make an excellent reference guide for medical data analysts with access to base SAS 9.3 or a textbook for an introductory and intermediate graduate biostatistics course. ... [It] comes to the market at an appropriate time in the extension of statistical applications to the medical industry ... The thoroughness of procedures and the consideration the authors included in the selection of graphs, SAS code, and theory allow this book to be a resourceful companion for medical analysts. If looking for a broad selection of medical analyses using base SAS 9.3, this is the book for you; in addition, if a particular topic is required for further analyses, the book references additional sources. -Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 52, January 2013

Praise for the First Edition: This is a handy book that can serve the everyday purposes of statisticians and programmers working in the pharmaceutical industry. ! The book has a reasonable coverage of statistical methods that are most commonly encountered in pharmaceutical settings. ! All statistical methods are explained via examples with medical background. This will help readers learn when, why, and how a specific statistical method should and could be used in certain settings, and how to implement any particular statistical method in SAS. SAS code associated with each example is provided and the corresponding output is interpreted from both statistical and clinical standpoints. ! I would recommend the book as one of the desktop dictionaries for statisticians or SAS programmers who deal with medical data on a daily basis, or as an introductory book for people who wish to gain some fundamental medical statistical techniques or SAS programming. ! --Xiaolei Li (GlaxoSmithKline), Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2008 This monograph introduces basic statistical methods and applications to medical data using SAS software. Each chapter is accompanied by a short description of methodology, detailed explanation of SAS program code for analysis of a real medical data set, and proper interpretation of SAS output. ! --Zentralblatt MATH, 1088

Applied Medical Statistics Using SAS is a thorough documentation of statistical methods, inclusive of medical data sets and SAS code. The book would make an excellent reference guide for medical data analysts with access to base SAS 9.3 or a textbook for an introductory and intermediate graduate biostatistics course. ... [It] comes to the market at an appropriate time in the extension of statistical applications to the medical industry ... The thoroughness of procedures and the consideration the authors included in the selection of graphs, SAS code, and theory allow this book to be a resourceful companion for medical analysts. If looking for a broad selection of medical analyses using base SAS 9.3, this is the book for you; in addition, if a particular topic is required for further analyses, the book references additional sources. -Journal of Statistical Software, Volume 52, January 2013

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Geoff Der, Brian S. Everitt

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