Health statistics (manual for physicians)

A.M.Merkov, L.E.Polyakov

Health statistics (manual for physicians)


Leningrad, 1974, OCR 2007

The electronic edition


The book is the most complete and modern guide for health statistics and scientific statistical methods of clinical, laboratory, medical and experimental data.

The book includes two separate sections:

1. The general theory and methods of sanitary-statistical research (including parametric and non-parametric methods for evaluating the significance of differences, the basis of the sampling method, correlation, regression, analysis of variance, and others.

2. Statistics health (sanitary and demographic statistics, morbidity and physical development of the population).

The book reflects the changes that have occurred in the methodology of health and medical statistics in recent years due to the widespread introduction of computer technology and mathematical-statistical methods.

The book is intended for physicians and medical research workers of all profiles, and in particular, to experts in the field of general and social care, health statistics, health management and health organizations, as well as post-graduate medical students and medical students of senior courses.

Management may also be useful to biologists and other specialists in the field of industry statistics and scientific methods of processing of medical information.