Clinical Problems and Statistical Solutions -- Diagnosis, Probability and Sampling -- The Variability of Clinical Measurements -- Sampling and Estimation -- The Search for Associations -- Treatment Trials. rn Abstract A biostatistics text which is also motivated by clinical problems. It is written in reponse to the increasing number of medical schools moving over to a problem-based curriculum in which clinical skills and basic science are learnt in an integrated manner.rnIncludes bibliographical references (pages 145-150) and index.