Author Description

"Adding topics useful to medical statisticians, this new edition of a popular intermediate-level reference explores the use of SAS for analyzing medical data. A new chapter on visualizing data includes a detailed account of graphics for investigating data and smoothing techniques. The book also includes new chapters on measurement in medicine, epidemiology/observational studies, meta-analysis, Bayesian methods, and handling missing data. The book maintains its example-based approach, with SAS code and output included throughout and available online"--Provided by publisher.