This textbook emphasizes the basics of biostatistics and epidemiology and their clinical applications in evidence-based medicine and decision-making methods. Topics include: study design, summarizing data, probability, research questions, analyzing questions about survival, statistical methods for multiple variables, survey research, decision analysis, and reading the medical literature. A companion CD-ROM contains NCSS statistical software, procedures, and data sets from the presenting problems. The authors teach internal medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)