Introduction to Biostatistics

Special issue on causal inference.

We provide a brief editorial introduction to a special issue of The International Journal of Biostatistics dedicated to several papers presented at a workshop held at the Banff International Research Station, Canada, in May 2009.

Understanding Biostatistics

There are many biostatistics books in print, apparently because no one book meets the need to be both (1) intelligible to a busy medical student, house officer, or clinician, and (2) sufficiently complete for those wanting a thorough treatment of the subject. The first question, therefore, is: Does this book fill a needed space in the biostatistical landscape, and if so, what is that space? Bas...

Introduction to Medical Biometry and Statistics

Introduction to biostatistics: Part 2. Measures of association as used to address therapy, harm, and etiology questions.

An introduction to network inference and mining

This vignette needs no specific prerequisites : it deals with elementary concepts related to graphs or networks. It has been created more specifically for application in biology but can be used by anybody interested by this topic, though the second part, about network inference, is more specific to biostatistics. Also, this vignette is written in English but the most important words are transla...