Fundamentals of Biostatistics (with CD-ROM)

The condition of the book is okay. I didn't get the book at the expected time. I made this known to Amazon and the seller. Both reponded quickly. The problem had to do with the postal service. The quick response of the seller ensured I got my book well ahead of my date of departure to Nigeria after my studies here.
Thank you for the prompt response!

The case studies are interesting and has a wealth of data sets. However for teaching the examples are poorly written, often convoluted and largely useless for learning. Often the text is along the lines of assume X = xxxx, Y = xxxx, thus the answer is . With little to no explanation short of the generic formula/law/axiom. As well as one, at best two, said examples.

Another flaw is the horrible lack of solutions to problems contained in the book. Only about a third of the end of chapter problems have a solution in the book/cd, and it is just the solution with zero info on how it is obtained.

Got my book as promised in two days.and that was most helpful for studying and obviously in perfect brand new condition, with the CD...Thanks Amazon...

Had to purchase this book because it is a reqired text for a course. the index of the book is totally inadequate and there is an index of applications by disease state which is totally useless and not by mathematical concepts- how bizaare is that! No index of formulae as any good mathematics or science book would have. If this book was written for medical students it explains why most medical literature has the statistics done by statisticians and not the medical profession This subject could be made so interesting and relevant and should transcend whatever your background is and whatever subject area you are talking about however the author is more interested in clinical disease states than teaching statistics and he claims the book is somehow superior because its not a cookbook. What is so wrong about dividing up a mathematical problem into logical steps, step one, step two step three etc etc The author has no concept of how the human mind understands and learns things. Since he probably has tenure, he doesn't have to. The book is boring, written in black and white and the print is too small with no color coding or highlighting. Starts chapter three Probability with a discussion of Breast Cancer. Typical egghead Harvard professor leaves out half of the answers in the answer key in the back of the book. Is he trying to punish those who are trying to learn the material.How about treating your audience like adults and provide all the answers in the answer key or is that another book we have to buy. No correlation to modern statistical software packages such as excel as well as a host of other packages available. No one does biostatistics without computers in this day and age. If I could have rated this book zero stars I would have done so.

Dr. Rosner's book tends to be excessively wordy and somewhat of an enigma of explanations when a simple step by step explanation of multiple derivatives of the same calculation would be much more helpful to students. The book tends to give a perspective on one specific means of deriving a problem as an example, instead of issue multiple different avenues of problems involving the same equation. The upside to the issue is that the book does contain answers to many of the chapter questions (answers located in the back). (NOTE: Unfortunately, his book is of very little, if any, help if you are taking his class, so consider ordering an additional guide to help you through it.)