Library of medical statistics

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

Books

General

  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.

Compilations

  1. Catalogue of Bias
  2. EQUATOR Network and reporting guidelines

Guidelines

  1. ICMJE Recommendations

Journal collections

  1. Bland & Altman. Statistics Notes. BMJ.
  2. Schwab & Held. Reproducibilty Notes. Significance.
  3. Sedgwick P. Endgames. BMJ.
  4. Guide to Statistics and Methods. JAMA.
  5. Statistics at Square One. BMJ.
  6. Statistics for Biologists. Nature.

Podcasts

  1. The Effective Statistician
  2. JAMA Guide to Statistics and Methods

Software

  1. The R Project for Statistical Computing
  2. RStudio Desktop
  3. Quarto
  4. Git version control system
  5. RTools