Intro to statistics for an MD? I have a friend who is an MD and wants to refresh his Statistics. So is there any recommended resource online (or offline) ? He did stats ~20 years ago.
 A: This is the one I've used successfully:
Statistics Without Maths for Psychology: Using Spss for Windows.
I just stumbled on this too, this might be useful:
Statistics Notes in the British Medical Journal.
I'm sure I knew of a free pdf that some doctors I know use, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. I will try to dig it out.
A: My book, Intuitive Biostatistics, is written partly from a medical point of view. It focusses on the practical parts of interpreting statistical results, with almost no math.
A: I assume your friend prefers something that's biostatistics oriented.  Glantz's Primer of Biostatistics is a small book, an easy and quick read, and tends to get rave reviews from a similar audience.  If an online reference works, I like Gerard Dallal's Handbook of Statistical Practice, which may do the trick if he's just refreshing previous knowledge.
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*Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models, Edition 2
Eric Vittinghoff · David V. Glidden · Stephen C. Shiboski · Charles E. McCulloch


*Logistic Regression: A Self-Learning Text (Statistics for Biology and Health) Third (3rd) Edition
David G. Kleinbaum, Mitchel Klein


*Survival Analysis: A Self-Learning Text, Third Edition (Statistics for Biology and Health) 3rd ed. 2012 Edition
David G. Kleinbaum, Mitchel Klein


*Categorical Data Analysis, Second Edition Alan Agresti
The assumptions here are:
a. As an MD their nose is in the literature all the time, and they are encountering the types of statistics that are typically presented in NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, etc.
b. They are less concerned with actually writing the code and fitting the analysis than of being a high caliber consumer, and potential director of information.
