Essentials of Biostatistics: An overview with the help of software

This book intends to provide an overview of biostatistics concepts and methodology through the use of statistical software. It helps clinicians, health care and biomedical professionals who need to have basic knowledge of biostatistics as they come across clinical data related to patient, drug and dosage requirement, treatment modalities in day to day life and they are required to take clinical and health care decisions based on the data. This book covers basic concepts involved in the field of Biostatistics such as descriptive statistics, inferential statistics, correlation and regression along with the advanced concepts such as factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant analysis and survival analysis. Each topic is explained with the help of R statistical package (open source package). One important note that the book will not discuss about the formulas and equations involved in the statistical concepts and the author assumes that the readers have basic understanding of excel as the sample dataset is used in the book are mostly excel based datasets and also have some clinical background