Library of medical statistics

Below is a curated list of essential books, research papers, guidelines, collections, and online resources that have proven to be highly valuable.

Medical statistics books

  1. Bland M. An Introduction to Medical Statistics. 4th ed. Oxford University Press; 2015.
  2. Chan BKC. Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R. Springer Publishing; 2015.
  3. Devore J, Peck R. Statistics: The Exploration & Analysis of Data. 7th ed. Cengage Learning; 2010.
  4. Field A, Miles J, Field Z. Discovering Statistics Using R. SAGE Publications; 2012.
  5. Held L, Rufibach K, Seifert B. Medizinische Statistik: Konzepte, Methoden, Anwendungen. 1st ed. Pearson; 2013.
  6. Kirkwood BR, Sterne JAC. Essential Medical Statistics. 2nd ed. Blackwell Science; 2003.
  7. Rosner B. Fundamentals of Biostatistics. 7th ed. Cengage Learning; 2010.

Journal statistics collections

  1. Bland & Altman Statistics Notes. BMJ. https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mb55/pubs/pbstnote.htm
  2. CRS Reproducibilty Notes. Significance. https://www.crs.uzh.ch/en/resources/CRS-Reproducibility-Notes.html
  3. Endgames by Philip Sedgwick. BMJ. Pubmed link
  4. Guide to Statistics and Methods. JAMA. https://jamanetwork.com/collections/44042/jama-guide-to-statistics-and-methods
  5. Statistics at Square One. BMJ. https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-readers/publications/statistics-square-one
  6. Statistics for Biologists. Nature. https://www.nature.com/collections/qghhqm

Software

  1. The R Project for Statistical Computing https://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/
  2. RStudio Desktop https://posit.co/download/rstudio-desktop/
  3. Quarto https://quarto.org/docs/download/
  4. Git version control system https://git-scm.com/downloads
  5. RTools https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/

Compilations

  1. Catalogue of Bias https://catalogofbias.org/
  2. EQUATOR Network and reporting guidelines https://www.equator-network.org/

Guidelines

  1. ICMJE Recommendations https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/