Epidemiology and Medical statistics Books

Copula additive distributional regression enables the joint modeling of multiple outcomes, an essential aspect of many real-world research problems. This book provides an accessible overview of this modeling approach, with a particular focus on its...

Mankind now faces even more challenging environment- and health-related problems than ever before. Readily available transportation systems facilitate the swift spread of diseases as large populations migrate from one part of the world to another...

Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Fourth Edition focuses on the statistical aspects ofmedicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. This...

Handbook of Survival Analysis presents modern techniques and research problems in lifetime data analysis. This area of statistics deals with time-to-event data that is complicated by censoring and the dynamic nature of events occurring in time.With...

Designed for nonstatisticians and statisticians new to the analysis of growth and development data, this book is an accessible and practical guide to a wide range of basic and advanced statistical methods that are useful for studying human growth and...

A companion book for Epidemiology study design and data analysis 3rd edition. Aims to equip with sufficient knowledge to use R for practising epidemiology. Reworks the examples in epidemiology study design and data analysis using R, presenting the code...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Asian cobras, covering their evolution, venom composition, geographic distribution, and the clinical effects of envenomation. It discusses treatment strategies and the public health impact of cobra...

This book introduces the ade4 package for R which provides multivariate methods for the analysis of ecological data. It is implemented around the mathematical concept of the duality diagram, and provides a unified framework for multivariate analysis...

Adaptive clinical trial designs, unlike traditional fixed clinical trial designs, enable modification of studies in response to the data generated in the course of the trial. This often results in studies that are substantially faster, more efficient,...

Fourth edition has new chapters on Bayesian survival analysis and use of the R software. Chapters extensively revised, expanded to add new material on topics that include methods for assessing predictive ability of a model, joint models for longitudinal...

Written to be easily accessible to readers with no formal training in epidemiology or statistics, this practical introduction is an ideal text/reference for students and professionals. It provides a target-organ presentation of environmental hazards,...

This volume introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation analysis. Applications from health, social, and developmental psychology, sociology, communication, exercise science, and epidemiology are emphasized throughout...

The growing perception of the public and politicians that life is extremely risky has led to a dramatic and increasing interest in risk analysis. The risks may be very diverse­ as demonstrated by the range of subjects covered...

Americans are "healing themselves" (Heckler, 1985) and prevention has taken root (McGinnis, 1985a). We are altering our lifestyle to reduce physical and mental health risks. Perhaps as important is the fact that the science of...

The purpose of the World Psychiatric Association is to coordinate the activities of its Member Societies on a world-wide scale and to advance enquiry into the etiology, pathology, and treatment of mental illness. To further...

Models to forecast changes in mortality, morbidity, and disability in elderly populations are essential to national and state policies for health and welfare programs. This volume presents a wide-ranging survey of the ...

A comprehensive overview of the effects of trichloroethylene toxicity caused by real-life exposure levels highlighting how exposure to trichloroethylene may contribute to the etiology of several idiopathic human diseases. Discussion will focus on...

This important work takes as its subject one of medicine's most pressing arenas of ethical debate. There has been a consistent interest in ethical issues arising in the context of HIV research. Ongoing international and...

Forest Analytics with R combines practical, down-to-earth forestry data analysis and solutions to real forest management challenges with state-of-the-art statistical and data-handling functionality. The authors adopt a...

Avian Flu.- Influenza: Biology, Infection, and Control.- The Past and Present Threat of Avian Influenza in Thailand.- Transmission of Avian Influenza Viruses to Humans: Viral Receptor Specificity and Distribution in Human Airways.- SARS.- Investigation...

Das Buch ""Die Infektions-Krankheiten vom �����tiologischen und hygienischen Standpunkte"" wurde 1882 von Josef Nowak verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Abhandlung �����ber Infektionskrankheiten aus sowohl �����tiologischer als auch...

Das Buch ""Die Cholera und andere Volksseuchen hinsichtlich Entstehung, Verbreitung, Ansteckung und Schutz vor Ansteckung"" wurde 1893 von Walter Migula ver������ffentlicht. Es behandelt die Entstehung und Verbreitung von Volksseuchen wie der Cholera...

The Milroy Lectures On Epidemic Diseases In England: The Evidence Of Variability And Of Persistency Of Type (1906) is a book written by William Heaton Hamer. The book is a collection of lectures given by Hamer in 1905 at the Royal College of Physicians...

Although considered an isolated event, the Italian government's initial resistant response to COVID-19 has deep historical roots. This is the first interdisciplinary book to critically examine the ongoing phenomenon of disguising contagious disease in...

Biosafety and Biosecurity: Practical Insights and Applications for Low and Medium-Income Countries comprehensively summarizes the state and development of biosafety and biosecurity in developing and developed nations in a comparative analysis, allowing...

A young woman cries, "Please don't let me die!" Has she received the best treatment? What is the best treatment? How do we know? Life-threatening disease prompts these questions in everyone. Which Treatment Is Best? Spoof or Proof? explains the best...

This book is directed to the computer-based modeling of chemotaxis inflammation, typically resulting from an infection by a pathogen (e.g., bacteria, viruses). The book has particular relevance to the coronavirus pandemic since long-Covid neurological...

It is widely believed that Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications will revolutionize healthcare and medicine. This book provides a comprehensive overview on the recent developments on clinical decision support systems, precision health and...

Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, second edition, is divided into two basic parts, the first presenting R packages, functions, classes and methods for handling spatial data. This part is of interest to users who need to access and visualise spatial...

Clustering and Clusters.- Disease Mapping: Visualization of Spatial Clustering.- Tests for Temporal Clustering.- General Tests for Spatial Clustering: Regional Count Data.- General Tests for Spatial Clustering : Case-Control Point Data.- Tests for...

Introduction.- First Steps in R for Phylogeneticists.- Phylogenetic Data in R.- Plotting Phylogenies.- Phylogeny Estimation.- Analysis of Macroevolution with Phylogenies.- Simulating Phylogenies and Evolutionary Data.- Developing and Implementing...

This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics. Starting with Mendel’s first experiments to genome-wide association studies, the...

Multiple complex pathways, characterized by interrelated events and c- ditions, represent routes to many illnesses, diseases, and ultimately death. Although there are substantial data and plausibility arguments suppo- ing many conditions as contributory...

Consciousness And Distributed Cognition.- Formal Theory.- Pathologies Of Collective Consciousness.- Disease And Collective Consciousness.- The Failure Of Aids Control And Treatment In The Us.- Final Remarks.- Mathematical appendix.- References.

Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Low and Middle Income Countries: Where Global AIDS is and Where it is Going.- HIV Prevention Needs: Primary Prevention and Prevention for People Living with HIV/AIDS.- Future of HIV/AIDS Care in Low- and Middle- Income...

Background and Preparations.- Background in Statistics.- to Experimental Genetics.- Fundamentals of Genetics: Inbreeding, Recombination, Random Mating, and Identity by Descent.- Experimental Genetics.- Testing for Linkage with a Single Marker.- Whole...

A General Framework.- Power: Conditional, Unconditional, and Predictive.- Historical Monitoring Boundaries.- Spending Functions.- Practical Survival Monitoring.- Inference Following a Group-Sequential Trial.- Options When Brownian Motion Does Not Hold.-...

Introduction.- Motivating Studies.- Generalized Linear Models.- Linear Mixed Models for Gaussian Longitudinal Data.- Model Families.- The Strength of Marginal Models.- Likelihood-based Models.- Generalized Estimating Equations.- Pseudo-likelihood.-...

The handbook targets clinicians, graduate students, medical students, and researchers who seek to conduct quantitative epilepsy research.

There is only one published book on confidence interval for clinical research. This book has a cookbook style with several examples and codes so that methods presented in the book can be implemented. The primary audience will be statisticians.

Mendelian Randomization: Methods For Causal Inference Using Genetic Variants provides thorough coverage of the methods and practical elements of Mendelian randomization analysis. It brings together diverse aspects of Mendelian randomization from the...

Clubfoot is a common deformity but remains unsolved. Detailed epidemiology has been described to assess the socio-economic impact. All corrective methods are enumerated, highlighting their efficacy and pitfalls. The importance of each clubfoot case being...

Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German physician and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality,...