Book, Biostatistics advanced topics 4/18[LS]

The book Bioestatística - Tópicos Avançados is another indispensable work by Sonia Vieira, which allows the reader to progressively master concepts, review their own ideas and improve learning, always in a pleasant way. The author's competence and ability to transmit ideas are demonstrated, in this book, by the arrangement of the themes, the sequence of ideas, the didacticism without compromising the depth in the choice of examples and exercises. Far from the aridity that is attributed (without reason, in fact) to Biostatistics, this work is capable of reaching both beginners and experts in the field. And this book, like the author's others, is characterized by precision of language, as befits the scientist, elegance of form, as befits the teacher, and thought-provoking content, as befits the researcher. The book Biostatistics - Advanced Topics explains how to interpret hypothesis tests and how to interpret confidence intervals. Presents non-parametric tests, widely used in health articles. And we are given not only the way to proceed with such tests, but also the logic of them. The analysis and interpretation of data presented in the contingency tables are treated in a clear and didactic manner. The book also presents correlation coefficients, association coefficients and concordance coefficients and deals with the analysis of diagnostic tests. It is, therefore, mandatory reading for those starting out in research, for those who are already researchers and for those who read research results. And more importantly: this "obligation" proves to be an intellectual pleasure, as it is one of those publications whose reading awakens, in the end, the pleasant anxiety of waiting for another book by the author.