Basic Biostatistics: Statistics for Public Health Practice, Second Edition

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gerstman, B. Burt, author.

Basic biostatistics : statistics for public health practice / B. Burt Gerstman. -- Second edition.

p. ; cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-284-02546-0 (pbk.) -- ISBN 1-284-02546-2 (pbk.)

I. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Biostatistics--methods. 2. Public Health Practice. WA 950]

RA409

362.1072’7--dc23

2013034384

6048

Printed in the United States of America

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