In 1847 the newly formed American Medical Association made a courageous commitment to
the slowly developing field of bioscience, rejecting the popular heterodoxies of the day. Its …

When the sciences of physics and chemistry advanced beyond the descriptive stage and
became quantitative in their approach to natural phenomena, the rate of advance of …

Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Vital Statistics in the University of London Statistics
is-or are-an old science (or art), but Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, and WF R. Weldon …

In the United States, more than twice as much is spent per person on healthcare as in most
other industrialized nations. Despite soaring healthcare coast, the country is failing …

Perhaps the one prediction coming out of future technology that is undoubtedly correct is
that in the future today's futurologists will almost certainly look silly. Fortunately for this …

INTaODUCTION TO MEDICAL BiOsraTY AND STATITICS. Third edition, revised and
enlarged. By Raymond Pcarl. Philadelphia: WB Saunders Company, 1940. 537 PP. $7.00 …

Statistics in Medicine, Fourth Edition, helps medical and biomedical investigators design
and answer questions about analyzing and interpreting data and predicting the sample size …

Having reported many of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences (EOSS) by
this publisher, which has been issued in nine volumes and three updates over more than 15 …

This provides a fourfold classification of biostatistics books for (1) those who want only to be
acquainted with biostatistics from a strongly clinical perspective (in order to operate …

All who have felt the intolerable itch to do r6search in any of the various fields of medicine
must have met the feeling of frustration which so often accompanies one's first contact with …