根据教育部相关文件规定，为满足医学院校临床医学专业双语教学和来华留学生教学的需要，在调研、论证的基础上组织编写本套教材。杰弗里·诺尔曼著郝元涛主编的《医学统计学(供临床医学专业及来华留学生MBBS双语教学用全国高等学校教材)》为英文版规划教材之一，在引进外版教材的基础上，根据我国教学实际情况进行改编，以使知识体系和主要内容基本符合教学大纲的要求。供本科、研究生、长学制双语教学及留学生教学使用。

Section the first THE NATURE OF DATA AND STATISTICS
The Basics
Looking at the Data
A First Look at Graphing Data
Describing the Data with Numbers
Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion
The Normal Distribution and Binomial Distribution
Statistical Inference
Section the second t -TEST AND ANOVA
t-test
Analysis of Variance
Section the third NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS
Tests of Significance for Categorical Frequency Data
Tests of Significance for Ranked Data
Survival Analysis
Section the fourth REGRESSION AND CORRELATION
Simple Regression and Correlation
Multiple Regression
Logistic Regression
Advanced Topics in Regression and AN'OVA
Measuring Change
Analysis of Longitudinal Data: Hierarchical Linear Modeling
Principal Components and Factor Analysis
Path Analysis and Structural Equation Modeling
Section the fifth REPRISE
Equivalence and Non-Inferiority Testing
Screwups, Oddballs, and Other Vagaries of Science
Locating Oufliers, Handling Missing Data, and Transformations
Getting Started with SPSS
Test Yourself (Being a Compendium of Questions and Answers)
Appendix