Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Background and Overview
This book evolved from personal experiences in both teaching and consulting in biostatistics. Although many biostatistics textbooks show computer outputs and results, they rarely show how to generate the results. Biostatistics instruction is also commonly theoretical and based on solving simple problems by hand. However, real-world data is usually more complicated than the simple examples, and I found that frequent collaborators–PhD-educated researchers who performed and managed experiments–needed more understanding of software to analyze their data. This is difficult because such ...
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