Editor Xiuhua Guo is a doctor and professor of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China. The main research areas focus on the hierarchical data model or data mining model to handle big data of high dimensional environmental and genetic factors in major infectious diseases, cardiovascular diseases and metabolic disorders, thus to provide scientific proof for the causes of diseases and intervention strategies.

Introduction to Medical Statistics.- Study Design, Sample Size Estimation and Selection of Statistical Method.- Statistical Tables and Graphs.- Descriptive Statistics of Continuous Variables.- Description of Categorical Variables.- Inferential Statistics: Confidence Interval.- Statistics Inferential: t tests.- Analysis of Variance.- Chi-square Test.- Nonparametric Statistics.- Correlation and Simple Linear Regression.- Multiple Linear Regression Analysis.- Logistic Regression.- Survival Analysis.- Cox Regression.- Appendix Tables of Probability Distributions.