I am a professional software developer with an interest in biostatistics. I picked up this book to gain a deeper understanding of Kaplan-Meier graphs and accompanying theories around them. This book went into many more details than I found accessible. Nonetheless, it introduced me to hazard plots and hazard analysis – a concept that I was able to apply to my work. Mathematics/statistics and R code are used heavily in this book. To garner the…
Professionally, I write software used for data collection in biomedical research projects. My current project extends from data collection into the field of interpretation. Combining these demands requires that I learn something about data cleaning. Thus, this book’s title caught my eye. It is an academic book, not a popular book. I usually write in-depth book reviews on what I read, so I am writing one here. This book seems like it began as an…
First, let me define the lay of the land for the curious reader. Biostatistics is the study of statistics relevant for biomedical applications. It combines mathematics and the bio world, which includes Public Health and Epidemiology. R is free software for a programming environment that allows researchers to perform advanced analyses of statistical questions on datasets. This volume by Chan was the first textbook that addressed R and biostatistics in depth in the same volume.…