Books

The main textbook will be

BCB
Susan E White
Basic and Clinical Biostatistics, 5th edition
McGraw-Hill, 2020, ISBN: 9781260455366

The electronic version of this book is available for free via UTHSC library. You will have to sign in to get access. The book has links to several datasets (some links may not work); we will use some of them in our lectures and homeworks. Most readings will be from this book.

Philosophically, we will be following the book

PSMR
Douglas G. Altman
Practical Statistics for Medical Research, 1st edition
Taylor and Francis, 1990, ISBN: 9780412276309

The book is beautifully written in clear, incisive, and plain language. The author has written many articles (many of them in the British Medical Journal) on the use and misuse of statistics in medical research.

The book by his longtime collaborator, Martin Bland, is more current.

IMS
Martin Bland
Introduction to Medical Statistics, 4th edition
Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN: 9780199589920

I strongly recommend that you buy a physical copy of at least one book. All three books cover more material than what we will cover in the course, and you might find it to be a useful reference in the future.

Stata videos

Stata has a nice list of video tutorials posted on their YouTube channel.

You may want to look at the ones under “Stata basics”, “Data management”, and “Graphics”.

Other resources