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by P. D. Oldham, 216 pp, 31 illus, $9.50, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1969.

Alvan R. Feinstein, MD, Reviewer
Veterans Administration Hospital West Haven, Conn

JAMA. 1970;211(1):125-126.

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Although statistical discipline has brought many obvious intellectual benefits to clinical research, thought ful physicians and statisticians have begun to recognize the existence of major defects both in the application of traditional statistical concepts to modern clinical biology, and in the performance of consultation by statistical advisers. From the viewpoint of biologic science, such prominent mathematical workers as Lancelot Hogben and Donald Mainland have decried many of the inappropriate or procrustean tactics used in contemporary statistical procedures. From the viewpoint of statistics, various biometricians have initiated public discussion of the unsatisfactory preparation received by many statisticians who act as consultants in the activities of clinical research. The clinical investigators who conduct medical surveys and therapeutic trials have become increasingly familiar with some of the overt or subtle flaws in the approaches suggested by statistical colleagues, but the clinicians, insecure about their mathematical credentials, have generally been reluctant to make waves. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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