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This volume, like its predecessors, may serve as a textbook for a single semester course in statistics for students in the biomedical field, or as a handy reference book for practicing biostatisticians. The mathematical level is deliberately kept to a minimum, and the chapters are written in a particularly clear and concise fashion. The clearness of the writing is based on the authors' teaching experiences with beginning students, their firm grasps of statistics, and their sense of what to include and what not to include in a book of this type. The original intent of the inclusion of short chapters was to encourage student completion and macroscopic development. The spirit of that approach has been maintained in this edition. To address today's biostatistical approaches, an emphasis has now been placed on the greater use of data analysis through computer manipulation.