books to read

prof percus emailed me some books to start with. there's some limited previews in google books.

1. Martin Gardner: Gotcha - paradoxes to puzzle and delight [Bobst QA95 .G229 2006]
2. Friedman, Feinberg, de Mets - Fundamentals of clinical trials [Bobst R853.C55 F75 1996]
3. Saari- Decisions and Elections [Courant HB846.8 .S25 2001]
4. Donald Berry- Statistical Methodology in the Pharmaceutical Sciences [ILL]

i located #3. and i found myself reading the title page and its verso (the LC CIP info). like technical reading of the book (which was an assignment i had for my lis512 class a few weeks ago). i feel like such a geek. i requested #4 from ILL since we don't own the book here and it seems NYPL has a copy not in circulation at SIBL. if it's good, i'll have to ask meg to get it for the library. the other two books, i'll have to get when i'm over there again sometime. perhaps tomorrow i'll dig through the stacks. some other books i'd like to browse on the same related topic:

1. Kirkwood - Essential Medical Statistics [Bobst R853.S7 K497 2003]
2. Petrie - Medical Statistics at a Glance [Bobst R853.S7 P476 2005]
3. Bahn - Basic Medical Statistics [Bobst RA409 B34]
4. Daly - Interpretations and Uses of Medical Statistics [Bobst RA409 B65 2000]
5. Rao - Epidemiology and medical statistics [Bobst RA652.2 M3 F65 2008]
6. Feinstein - Principles of Medical Statistics [Bobst R853.S7 F45 2002] out
   
7. Campbell - Medical Statistics: a textbook for the health science [Bobst R853.S7 C36 2007]
8. Peat - Medical Statistics: a guide to data analysis and critical appraisal [Bobst R853.S7 P43 2005] out
9. Bowers - Medical Statistics from scratch: an introduction for health professionals [Bobst RA409 B669 2008] out
10. Everitt - medical statistics from A to Z [Bobst RA407 E943 2006]
11. Rees - Essential Statistics for Medical Practice: a case-study approach [Bobst RA409 R44 1994] out
12. Matthews - Using and Understanding Medical Statistics 4th ed [Bobst 2nd ed RA409 M39 1988]
13. Everitt - the encyclopaedic companion to medical statistics [Bobst RA409 E527 2005]
14. Riffenburgh - Statistics in medicine [Bobst RA409 R54 2005]
15. Samuels - Statistics for the life sciences [Bobst QH323.5 S23 2003]
16. Daniel - Biostatistics [Courant RA409 .D35 2005]
17. Indrayan - medical biostatistics [Bobst RA407 I525 2001]
18. Feinstein - clinical biostatistics [Bobst RA409 F36]
19. Havil - Impossible?: surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums [Bobst QA99 H379 2008] out

the list keeps growing! i'll have to start up my refworks acct from smith and get it transferred to nyu. it looks like i'll be spending a lot more time over at bobst than here at courant. General Sections to look at:

• QA95
  
• QA99
• QH323.5
• R853
• RA407
• RA407
• RA652.2