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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Quantitative Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences
    sub title: a Historical Essay
  name:
    name part: Lancaster, H. O.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1994
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (XVII, 297 pages)
  abstract: This wide-ranging volume surveys the immense impact that quantitative methods have had on the development of modern biological and medical science. Professor Lancaster begins with the contribution of the Ancient Greek philosophers and then traces the development of fundamental ideas from there to the present day. He shows how mathematics, principally through counting and measurement, and statistics have profoundly influenced the emergence of key ideas and theories. Since no background knowledge of biological anatomy, physiology or disease is required, this volume is essentially a self-contained account. As befits such a wide-ranging volume, amongst the topics covered are: epidemiology, the classification of disease, microbiology, genetics, clinical trials, death rates and life tables, and evolution. All those interested in these topics will find this an invaluable source of information and a remarkable synthesis of the long history of quantification in the biological (including medical) sciences.
  note: by H.O. Lancaster.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Physiology
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Physiology
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  classification: QH323.5
  classification: 570.285
  identifier: 9781461226581 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1461226589 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: I9W
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20260420212508.7
    record identifier: in00003548063
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng