02174cam a22003858i 4500 22627383 OSt 20260619154028.0 220602s20222023nyu b 001 0 eng 2022022379 9781032328393 (hbk) 9781032328386 (pbk) 9781003316985 (ebk) 22627383 DLC eng rda DLC pcc QH323.5 .B3595 2022 570.1/5195 23/eng/20220611 Colon Classification Baronov, David, author. 16531 Biostatistics : an introduction and conceptual critique / David Baronov. 2209 New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. ©2023 pages cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Biostatistical analysis contributes to amazing medical breakthroughs, yet it also distorts and deforms the holistic and contingent nature of health and medicine. How can biostatistics both sharpen and weaken our understanding of health and medicine? What is unique about the content of health and medicine that so plainly reveals such distortions and deformities? Exploring these questions entails, first, a full survey of the tools and techniques of biostatistical analysis aiding medical breakthroughs. This survey must then be paired with a probe into the conceptual premises of these tools and techniques and how they refashion and reconstitute the content of health and medicine in preparation for its quantification. We must grasp the statistical machinations at play, both technical and conceptual, that contrive to fit objects to tools rather than fitting tools to objects. This textbook introduces both the procedural methods and the hidden premises of biostatistical analysis"-- Provided by publisher. Biometry. 16532 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 760818 760818 0 0 ddc 0 0 BCH BCH 2026-06-23 BCH4423 0 570.1/5195 BCH04423 2026-06-23 12:57:58 2026-06-23 BK