Biostatistics category: 339 books
Digital Image Processing in Medicine
Proceedings, Hamburg, October 5, 1981
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
In diagnostic medicine a large part of information about the patient is drawn from data, which, more or less, are represented in an opti calor pictorial form. There is a very wide range of such data as e.g. the patients appearance, the various kinds of radiological images, or cytological imagery....
Systems Biology
A Textbook
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
This advanced textbook is tailored for an introductory course in Systems Biology and is well-suited for biologists as well as engineers and computer scientists.
It comes with student-friendly reading lists and a companion website featuring a short exam prep version of the book and educational...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Each volume in the Notre Dame Series on Quantitative Methodology features leading methodologists and substantive experts who provide instruction on innovative techniques designed to enhance quantitative skills in a substantive area. This latest volume focuses on the methodological issues and analyses...
Composite Sampling
A Novel Method to Accomplish Observational Economy in Environmental Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2010
Sampling consists of selection, acquisition, and quantification of a part of the population. While selection and acquisition apply to physical sampling units of the population, quantification pertains only to the variable of interest, which is a particular characteristic of the sampling units. A sampling...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In recent years the number of innovative medicinal products and devices submitted and approved by regulatory bodies has declined dramatically. The medical product development process is no longer able to keep pace with increasing technologies, science and innovations and the goal is to develop new...
by Toshimitsu Ochiai, Scott R. Evans, Toshimitsu Hamasaki
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book focuses on group sequential methods for clinical trials with co-primary endpoints based on the decision-making frameworks for: (1) rejecting the null hypothesis (stopping for efficacy), (2) rejecting the alternative hypothesis (stopping for futility), and (3) rejecting the null or alternative...
Converting Data into Evidence
A Statistics Primer for the Medical Practitioner
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
Converting Data into Evidence: A Statistics Primer for the Medical Practitioner provides a thorough introduction to the key statistical techniques that medical practitioners encounter throughout their professional careers. These techniques play an important part in evidence-based medicine or EBM....
Growth Curve and Structural Equation Modeling
Topics from the Indian Statistical Institute
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
This book describes some recent trends in GCM research on different subject areas, both theoretical and applied. This includes tools and possibilities for further work through new techniques and modification of existing ones. A growth curve is an empirical model of the evolution of a quantity over...
Real World Ecology
Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2008
Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled variables. These issues encompass problems that are inadequately addressed using the types of carefully...
The Art of Progressive Censoring
Applications to Reliability and Quality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book offers a thorough and updated guide to the theory and methods of progressive censoring, an area that has experienced tremendous growth over the last decade. The theory has developed quite nicely in some special cases having practical applications to reliability and quality.
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Cancer Clinical Trials
A Critical Appraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The controlled clinical trial has become an essential part of the clinician's decision-making process. Clinical trials, however, still raise methodological problems that are important and at the same time controversial: subgroup analysis and interactions, meta-analy sis of similar trials, consideration...
General Practitioner Education
UK and Nordic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A workshop to look at strategies, methods of implementation and evaluation of vocational training and Continuing Medical Education in General Practice was held in June 1990 in London. This text represents papers written by contributors to the workshop and pre-circulated papers which describe health...
ActivEpi Companion Textbook
A supplement for use with the ActivEpi CD-ROM
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This Companion Textbook supplements the ActivEpi CD-ROM, sold separately. The ActivEpi CD-ROM provides a multimedia presentation of concepts, commonly taught in an introductory epidemiology course. ActivEpi mixes a full array of media to motivate, explain, visualize and apply epidemiological concepts....
New Health Systems
Integrated Care and Health Inequalities Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
New health systems exist today thanks to the changing nature of diseases as a result of the integration of new technologies and new approaches in care giving and the management of healthcare systems. This book studies the health inequalities in these new health systems, structured according to the...