Acknowledgements

The Framingham Heart Study

This textbook would not exist in its present form without the extraordinary generosity of the Framingham Heart Study participants — men and women who enrolled from 1948 onwards, submitting to biennial examinations for decades, so that cardiovascular medicine might advance. Their contribution to medical knowledge cannot be overstated.

We are grateful to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health and to Boston University for making a teaching subset of the Framingham data available for educational use. The data used in this textbook is provided under the NHLBI teaching dataset programme (Framingham Heart Study, N01-HC-25195).

Clinical Trial Data (The Anorexia Dataset)

We extend our thanks to David J. Hand and the co-authors of A Handbook of Small Data Sets, as well as Bill Venables and Brian Ripley, the authors of the MASS package in R. By preserving and sharing the results of clinical trials in psychotherapy, they have provided an invaluable resource for teaching students how to measure the effectiveness of health interventions.

Students and Colleagues

We thank all the health science students whose questions, confusions, and insights have shaped every chapter of this book. A textbook is always, at heart, a record of what students needed to hear.

Open-Source Community

This book was built entirely on open-source tools: Jupyter Book, Python, R, PSPP, and LaTeX. We are grateful to the developers and contributors of these projects, without whose work open-access education at this level would not be possible.