Category: Evidence-Based Medicine

  • A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health (2009)

    A Clinician’s Guide to Statistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health (2009)

    Forget about the rather limiting and convoluted title of this book. It’s an outstanding overview of practical clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. To better understand what this book can do for you, consider, Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015), which I reviewed elsewhere. That book is also a qualitative description of important concepts biostatistics concepts, but…

  • Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015)

    Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015)

    Essential Biostatistics: A Nonmathematical Approach (2015) is a 200 page book that introduces you to most of the important concepts of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics. But instead of bogging things down with formulas and calculations, the book shows you how to use biostatistical concepts in practice. Take for example the concept of statistical significance. We…

  • Book Review: The Philosophy of Evidence Based Medicine (2011)

    Book Review: The Philosophy of Evidence Based Medicine (2011)

    Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, once said: Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments…