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Title: Behavioral Science (Board Review Series) by Barbara Fadem, Barbara Fadam ISBN: 0-683-02953-3 Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins Pub. Date: December, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)
Rating: 1
Summary: A very negative opinion on one particular chapter
Comment: Being a professor of mathematics, I obviously cannot asses the overall quality of the book. However, I read Chapter 22 on statistical methods and unfortunately found it below any criticism. I certainly understand that this kind of material should be presented to medical students with a substantially lower level of rigor than, say, to mathematical students. However, the extent of simplification and watering everything down in the book is unproportional even from this standpoint. In many cases this leads to absolutely meaningless explanations -- those of the kind that may obscure and alter the true essence of a given concept. I think, for example, that after reading this chapter an average unprepared person will be more confused regarding the concepts of probability and distribution of probabilities than he or she would have been with just using normal common sense, with no reading at all. Besides, I found the definition of odds ratio (page 183) extremely unclear, especially as to its connection to relative risk. Moreover, the calculations in Example 22-1 have a very different meaning compared to what the author implies, and the claim that the quantity calculated in this example has anything to do with the concept of the risk addressed on the previous page of the book (page 182) is simply incorrect. Summarizing, I must say that if there is hope for the general population to benefit (or at least not get into trouble) from the studies in medical statistics, then these studies should be conducted with as little reference to the aforementioned book as possible.
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Title: Physiology (Board Review Series) by Linda S. Costanzo ISBN: 0781739195 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Pathology: Board Review Series by Arthur S. Schneider, Philip A. Szanto ISBN: 0683302655 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: First Aid for the USMLE Step 1: 2003 by Vikas Bhushan, Tao Le, Chirag Amin, Joshua Klein, Anil Shivaram ISBN: 0071399127 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Appleton & Lange Pub. Date: 17 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Microbiology & Immunology: Board Review Series by Arthur G. Johnson, Omelan A. Lukasewycz, Richard J. Ziegler, Louise B. Hawley ISBN: 0781727707 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: 15 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Lippincott's Illustrated Reviews : Pharmacology : Special Millennium Update by Mary Julia Mycek, Richard A. Harvey, Pamela C. Champe ISBN: 0781724139 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $42.95 |
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