Daniel Zelterman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biostatistics, at Yale University. His application areas include work in clinical trial designs for cancer studies. Before moving to Yale in 1995, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota and at the State University of New York at Albany. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time he plays oboe and bassoon and has backpacked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail.

• Preface; Preface to revised edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Principles of statistics; 3. Introduction to linear regression; 4. Assessing the regression; 5. Multiple linear regression; 6. Indicators, interactions, and transformations; 7. Nonparametric statistics; 8. Logistic regression; 9. Diagnostics for logistic regression; 10. Poisson regression; 11. Survival analysis; 12. Proportional hazards regression; 13. Review of methods; Appendix: statistical distributions; Selected solutions and hints; References; Index.

Daniel Zelterman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biostatistics, at Yale University. His application areas include work in clinical trial designs for cancer studies. Before moving to Yale in 1995, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota and at the State University of New York at Albany. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time he plays oboe and bassoon and has backpacked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail.

• Preface; Preface to revised edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Principles of statistics; 3. Introduction to linear regression; 4. Assessing the regression; 5. Multiple linear regression; 6. Indicators, interactions, and transformations; 7. Nonparametric statistics; 8. Logistic regression; 9. Diagnostics for logistic regression; 10. Poisson regression; 11. Survival analysis; 12. Proportional hazards regression; 13. Review of methods; Appendix: statistical distributions; Selected solutions and hints; References; Index.

Daniel Zelterman, PhD, is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biostatistics, at Yale University. His application areas include work in clinical trial designs for cancer studies. Before moving to Yale in 1995, he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota and at the State University of New York at Albany. He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time he plays oboe and bassoon and has backpacked hundreds of miles of the Appalachian Trail.

• Preface; Preface to revised edition; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Principles of statistics; 3. Introduction to linear regression; 4. Assessing the regression; 5. Multiple linear regression; 6. Indicators, interactions, and transformations; 7. Nonparametric statistics; 8. Logistic regression; 9. Diagnostics for logistic regression; 10. Poisson regression; 11. Survival analysis; 12. Proportional hazards regression; 13. Review of methods; Appendix: statistical distributions; Selected solutions and hints; References; Index.