Research Methodology and Medical Biostatistics

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Research Methodology and Medical Biostatistics It gives me great pleasure to go through the book on Research Methodology and Medical Biostatistics written by Dr. Dhulappa M.D. (Ayur.) Asso. Professor of N. K. Jabshetty Ayurvedic Medical College & P. G. Centre, Bidar (Karnataka). He is known to me personally for many years as a good teacher with academic bent of mind. He has earlier written a book on his own subject Dravyagun which is received well by students community.

The present book on ‘Research Methodology and Medical Biostatistics’ written by the author is timely one, though there are many books available on the subject, but this one proves to be beneficial to the students community for better understanding of the subject, since it emphasis on conciseness and easy to comprehend style to cater to the needs of the fresh students of Ayurveda in gaining firm grip on this very important subject of Research Methodology introduced recently at under graduate level syllabus.

Research Methodology is a continuously evolving subject, where one needs to consult the current updates and modify the protocol and formats as per the need from time to time. Research is essential for development of any science, more so in respect of our ancient science of life. Ayurveda, though is holistic in approach in diagnosis, progno- sis as well as management of diseases; Holistic approach has consider- able difficulties and even challenges. The scientists have to devise pa- rameters and design suitable models for clinical trials. The persuit of a better understanding of the fundamental concepts and principles through scientific research is the need of the hour. The quest of search for some- thing new or reinvent the knowledge with the help of modern param- eters for the betterment of mankind is called Research. It is highly intellectual human activity used in the search of new knowledge. Since active research indicates addition of new dimensions of appliations. It is an endeavor of applications. It is an endeavor to discover new facts or correlate old facts through new modern tools to get complete vali- dated konwledge, in a methodial and systematic way. The aim of re- search is also to consolidate fundamental knowledge and allow future generation Ayurveda teachers/clinicians to be well trained to get succcess in treatment.

This book on Research Methodology and Medical Biostatis- tics by Dr. Dhulappa has elobarately dealt the subject in a lucid man- ner spreads over 12 chapters, high lighting the various facets of re- search methodology with related topics of statistics. He has put in lot of efflorts and care in presenting all the relevant information.