Epidemiology & statistics

Books

Altmann DG. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. Chapman & Hall/CRC, 1990.

Bland M, Peacock J. Statistical questions in evidence-based medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Elementary Concepts in Statistics. Electronic Textbook, StatSoft, Inc., 1984-2008.

Friedman LM, Furberg CD, DeMets DL. Fundamentals of clinical trials. 3rd edition. New York ; Heidelberg: Springer, 1998.

Haynes, RB.Clinical epidemiology: how to do clinical practice research. 3rd edition. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006.

Higgins, JPT, Green, S, editors. Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Version 5.0.1 [updated September 2008].

Last JM, editor. A dictionary of epidemiology / edited for the International Epidemiological Association. 4th edition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Sackett DL.Clinical epidemiology: a basic science for clinical medicine, 2nd edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Comp., 1991.

Articles

British Medical Journal: Statistics Notes
Online archives of series of articles originally published in the BMJ (full text of all but the first ten articles)

Grimes DA, Schulz KF. An overview of clinical research: the lay of the land. The Lancet 2002; 359(9300):57-61

Online resources

AP Statistics Tutorial provided by StatTrek.com

Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions

Statistics.com offers professional development courses in statistics

Statistics and Probability Glossary provided by StatTrek.com

Virtual Library University of California