Biostatistics category: 339 books

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Applied Statistical Inference

Likelihood and Bayes

by Leonhard Held, Daniel Sabanés Bové
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

This book covers modern statistical inference based on likelihood with applications in medicine, epidemiology and biology. Two introductory chapters discuss the importance of statistical models in applied quantitative research and the central role of the likelihood function. The rest of the book is...
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by Helen Brown, Robin Prescott
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014

A fully updated edition of this key text on mixed models, focusing on applications in medical research The application of mixed models is an increasingly popular way of analysing medical data, particularly in the pharmaceutical industry. A mixed model allows the incorporation of both fixed...
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by Alain Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Neil Walker
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009

This book discusses advanced statistical methods that can be used to analyse ecological data. Most environmental collected data are measured repeatedly over time, or space and this requires the use of GLMM or GAMM methods. The book starts by revising regression, additive modelling, GAM and GLM, and then discusses dealing with spatial or temporal dependencies and nested data.
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by Adrian G. Barnett, Annette J. Dobson
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010

Seasonal patterns have been found in a remarkable range of health conditions, including birth defects, respiratory infections and cardiovascular disease. Accurately estimating the size and timing of seasonal peaks in disease incidence is an aid to understanding the causes and possibly to developing...
Cover of Statistical Analysis of Clinical Data on a Pocket Calculator, Part 2
by Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

The first part of this title contained all statistical tests relevant to starting clinical investigations, and included tests for continuous and binary data, power, sample size, multiple testing, variability, confounding, interaction, and reliability. The current part 2 of this title reviews methods...
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by Richard M. Simon
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013

Genomics is majorly impacting therapeutics development in medicine. This book contains up-to-date information on the use of genomics in the design and analysis of therapeutic clinical trials with a focus on novel approaches that provide a reliable basis for identifying which patients are most likely...
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by Roderick J. A. Little, Donald B. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2014

* Emphasizes the latest trends in the field. * Includes a new chapter on evolving methods. * Provides updated or revised material in most of the chapters.
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Diagnosis Related Groups in Europe

Uses and Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

When John Thompson and I first began talking about finding a way to measure and cost the output of hospitals in the 1960s. we really had no concept of the need for this kind of result. In fact. if we had listened to others in the health services research community. we would rrever have begun or persisted...
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Medical Statistics

For Beginners

by Ramakrishna HK
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016

This book deals with statistics in medicine in a simple way. The text is supported by abundant examples from medical data. This book aims to explain and simplify the process of data presentation. Further aspects addressed include how to design and conduct clinical trials, and how to write journal articles.   
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

As a result of the policy to alleviate work permit restrictions within the European Community, the quantitative and qualitative distribution of doctors in the E.C. is of growing importance in health politics. Particularly under discussion are questions concerning future training programs for doctors...
Cover of Permutation Testing for Isotonic Inference on Association Studies in Genetics
by Luigi Salmaso, Rosa Arboretti, Livio Corain
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2011

The purpose of this book is to illustrate a new statistical approach to test allelic association and genotype-specific effects in the genetic study of diseases. There are some parametric and non-parametric methods available for this purpose. We deal with population-based association studies, but comparisons...
Cover of Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data
by Noel Cressie, Christopher K. Wikle
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

**Winner of the 2013 DeGroot Prize. A state-of-the-art presentation of spatio-temporal processes,** bridging classic ideas with modern hierarchical statistical modeling concepts and the latest computational methods Noel Cressie and Christopher K. Wikle, are also winners of the 2011 PROSE...
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Modern Problems of Stochastic Analysis and Statistics

Selected Contributions In Honor of Valentin Konakov

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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017

This book brings together the latest findings in the area of stochastic analysis and statistics. The individual chapters cover a wide range of topics from limit theorems, Markov processes, nonparametric methods, acturial science, population dynamics, and many others. The volume is dedicated to Valentin...
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Modelling Population Dynamics

Model Formulation, Fitting and Assessment using State-Space Methods

by P. Besbeas, K. B. Newman, S. T. Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014

This book gives a unifying framework for estimating the abundance of open populations: populations subject to births, deaths and movement, given imperfect measurements or samples of the populations. The focus is primarily on populations of vertebrates for which dynamics are typically modelled within...
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