RT Journal
A1 Vaisrub N
T1 Biostatistics: The bare essentials
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD November 25
VO 302
IS 20
SP 2260
OP 2264
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.1734
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1734
AB 
Unless they depict bodice-ripping scenes, green slime monsters, or a plethora of mathematical symbols, it is generally regarded as unfair to judge books by their covers. In this case, however, Norman and Streiner replace the standard bell-shaped curve with a da Vinci drawing, with the apex at the crotch. For the back cover, these authors unabashedly bare their own bodies with a variation on this classic drawing, covering their privates with a red cardboard maple leaf, thereby revealing more than their Canadian background for the backside of their latest edition of Biostatistics: The Bare Essentials.