Merrill (epidemiology and biostatistics, Brigham Young U.) details the fundamentals of epidemiology and biostatistics and their complementary roles in public health and clinical medicine in the context of current applications, for students in public health, clinical medicine, health policy and management, health sciences, allied health, and nursing. He focuses on the themes of descriptive statistical procedures, probability, statistical inference, and statistical techniques for determining appropriate sample size and assessing data, covering data and descriptive measures, standardizing rates, describing data with graphs, life tables, probability, random variables and probability distributions, estimation and hypothesis testing, sample size, study designs, statistical measures of association among variables, experimental studies, survival analysis, and cause and effect. Computer applications using SAS are used to demonstrate data analysis. Included is online access to crosswords, flashcards, a glossary, matching questions, and web links. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)