Medical research Books

The debate over vaccines and their impact on people has been ongoing for many years. While some people believe that vaccines are necessary, others are strongly opposed to them. Unfortunately, many people lack the necessary information to make informed...

Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and draw appropriate inferences. Its use and importance have exploded over the last 25 years as the need for a robust evidence base has become clear in many...

The book is primarily aimed at graduate students and researchers in the environmental and ecological sciences, as well as environmental management professionals. This is a group of people representing diverse subject matter fields, which could benefit...

Setting standards for the delivery of healthcare, issuing guidance on public health, and assessing and making recommendations on health technologies, NICE has attracted widespread international attention, emulation, and comment.

The world is awash in data. This volume of data will continue to increase. In the pharmaceutical industry, much of this data explosion has happened around biomarker data. Great statisticians are needed to derive understanding from these data. This book...

Single-Arm Phase II Survival Trial Design provides a comprehensive summary to the most commonly- used methods for single-arm phase II trial design with time-to-event endpoints. Single-arm phase II trials are a key component for successfully developing...

The papers in this volume represent a broad, applied swath of advanced contributions to the 2015 ICSA/Graybill Applied Statistics Symposium of the International Chinese Statistical Association, held at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.  The...

This book focuses on several skew-normal mixed effects models, and systematically explores the statistical inference theories, methods, and applications of parameters of interest. This book is of academic value, since it helps to establish a series of...

Kinanthropometry VIII is the collected proceedings of the eighth conference of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK).

Books covering the complete application of Biostatistics in Pharmaceutical and clinical trails data analysis. This book is authored in a detailed and easy to understand in a manner incorporating the updated information containing the following features...

The second edition of the book "Statistics for Agricultural Sciences" was well received by students and staff for whom it was intended. The author has thoroughly revised and updated the second edition and included SPSS data analysis Procedure for all the...

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Die Institution des Notdienstes, der regelmäßig die Telefonanamnese einsetzt, verdeutlicht in quantifizierbarer Weise den Wert dieser spezifischen Anamneseform für die allgemeinärztliche Praxis. Die eigenständige ...

Die Untersuchung des möglichen Zusammenhanges zwischen Passivrauchen und Lungenkrebs ist ein Beispiel für aktuelle epidemiologische Fragestellungen, bei denen es um die Erforschung der Krankheitsverursachung durch niedrige...

This easy-to-follow applied book on semiparametric regression methods using R is intended to close the gap between the available methodology and its use in practice. Semiparametric regression has a large literature but much of it is geared towards data...

This monograph on measurement error and misclassification covers a broad range of problems and emphasizes unique features in modeling and analyzing problems arising from medical research and epidemiological studies. Many measurement error and...

The field of health psychology has grown dramatically in the last decade, with exciting new developments in the study of how psychological and psychosocial processes contribute to risk for and disease sequelae for a variety of...

This book presents practical approaches for the analysis of data from gene expression micro-arrays. It describes the conceptual and methodological underpinning for a statistical tool and its implementation in software. The book...

Computational and Evolutionary Analysis of HIV Molecular Sequences is for all researchers interested in HIV research, even those who only have a nodding acquaintance with computational biology (or those who are familiar with...

Covering a wide range of disciplines, this book explains the formulae, techniques, and methods used in field ecology. By providing an awareness of the statistical foundation for existing methods, the book will make biologists...

Peer research is increasingly used in international academic, policy and practice environments. It engages members of a group or social network as trusted members of a research team working in communities and settings they are familiar with. Critics,...

Clinical Trial Optimization Using R explores a unified and broadly applicable framework for optimizing decision making and strategy selection in clinical development, through a series of examples and case studies. It provides the clinical researcher with...

Praise for the first edition:"Given the author's years of experience as a statistician and as a founder of the first DMC in pharmaceutical industry trials, I highly recommend this book-not only for experts because of its cogent and organized...

Mismeasurement of explanatory variables is a common hazard when using statistical modeling techniques, and particularly so in fields such as biostatistics and epidemiology where perceived risk factors cannot always be measured accurately. With this...

Longitudinal studies often incur several problems that challenge standard statistical methods for data analysis. These problems include non-ignorable missing data in longitudinal measurements of one or more response variables, informative observation...

This book is titled Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Autism: An Anthropological Quest. It is based on the research project report "Consanguinity and Its Impact on Probability of Autism in an Inbred Community of Bangladesh" conducted by the authors and...

Vor nunmehr 10 Jahren konnte ich den siert, sondern geradezu erregt; auch in der "ökonomischen Grundriß der Gesetzli­ Wirtschaftslehre hat sie ihren anerkannten chen Krankenversicherung" erscheinen Platz gefunden. So erscheint...

This is the first book in longitudinal categorical data analysis with parametric correlation models developed based on dynamic relationships among repeated categorical responses. This book is a natural generalization of the longitudinal binary data...

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...

This book presents the statistical aspects of designing, analyzing and interpreting the results of genome-wide association scans (GWAS studies) for genetic causes of disease using unrelated subjects. Particular detail is given to the practical aspects of...

The continued successes of large- and small-scale genome sequencing projects are increasing the number of genomic targets available for drug d- covery at an exponential rate. In addition, a better understanding of molecular...

Medicine has, until recently, been slow to adapt to information technologies and systems for many reasons, but the future lies therein. Innovations in Data Methodologies and Computational Algorithms for Medical Applications offers the most cutting-edge...

Continual improvements in data collection and processing have had a huge impact on brain research, producing data sets that are often large and complicated. By emphasizing a few fundamental principles, and a handful of ubiquitous techniques, Analysis of...

Methods of risk analysis and the outcome of particular evaluations and predictions are covered in detail in this proceedings volume, whose contributions are based on invited presentations from Professor Mei-Ling Ting Lee's 2011 symposium on Risk Analysis...

In this new book, top specialists address theoretical, methodological, and empirical multilevel models as they relate to the analysis of individual and cultural data.

This books covers all three types of trials resulting in clustered data. For outcome variables of binary, continuous, and time to event types. The methods are discussed in terms of clinical trials, but can be used to design and analyze any types of...

This book is an introductory guide to programming and coding in Stata. Commonly encountered code in the field of medical statistics as well as the analyses of observational data are presented.This book covers loops and macros and then describes other...

This concise, user-friendly book provides an accessible guide for anyone wishing to pursue an epidemiological study. It provides the essential tools to understand what epidemiology is, how to choose the correct observational study design for a research...

Focuses on integrating epidemiologic principles with statistical modeling methods in such a way that the principles inform the choice of modeling strategy and covariate selection.

Readers who want a less mathematical alternative to the EQS manual will find exactly what they're looking for in this practical text. Written specifically for those with little to no knowledge of structural equation modeling (SEM) or EQS, the author's...

There is a growing interest in, and acceptance of, qualitative research approaches in the health science disciplines, both as standalone methodologies and integrated with quantitative designs in mixed methods approaches. This comprehensive text provides...

The Brooklyn Medical Journal V15: January To December, 1901 (1901) is a book compiled by Joseph H. Raymond. It is a collection of medical articles and research papers published in the Brooklyn Medical Journal throughout the year 1901. The book covers a...

Reference text for statistical methods and applications for measurement error models for: researchers who work with error-contaminated data, graduate students from statistics and biostatistics, analysts in multiple fields, including medical research,...

"This is truly an outstanding book. [It] brings together all of the latest research in clinical trials methodology and how it can be applied to drug development.... Chang et al provide applications to industry-supported trials. This will allow...