TY - JOUR
AU1 - Irving, Doreen
AB - 1975] Reviews 439 "innocent until proved guilty" in law-non-parametric methods are identified with correctly stated as being distribution-free rather than parameter-free--the practical problems behind index numbers are discussed. There is one major blemish; when considering the Mann-Whitney U test, it is implied that distributions of different dispersion can be compared when in fact the two distributions should be identical except possibly for their location parameters. But this is an isolated instance; and because of its excellent presentation elsewhere I would have no hesitation in recommending the book to non-mathematicians, or even to mathematicians who were not looking for the technical details and justifications. STANLEY COLLINGS The Open University 6. Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences. By Wayne W. Daniel. New York, Wiley, 1974. xxi, 448 p. 91 • £6'50. A list of the 12 chapter headings in Daniel's book reads like a syllabus of a standard course in statistics: Organising and summarising data. Some basic probability concepts. Probability distributions. Some important sampling distributions. Estimation. Hypothesis testing. Analysis of variance. Simple linear regression and correlation. Multiple regression and correlation. The chi-square distribution and the analysis offrequencies. Nonparametric and distribution-free statistics. Vital statistics. Although the author claims to 
TI - Biostatistics: A Foundation for Analysis in the Health Sciences
JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society)
DO - 10.2307/2344591
DA - 2018-12-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/biostatistics-a-foundation-for-analysis-in-the-health-sciences-I2a0rq0ukV
SP - 439
EP - 439
VL - 138
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -