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The problems confronting health professionals today often involve fundamental aspects of device and system analysis, and their design and application, and as such are of extreme importance to engineers and scientists.

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Vidakovic, B. (2011). Introduction. In: Statistics for Bioengineering Sciences. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0394-4_1

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