Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book provides deep insights into the ecology of the plague bacterium Yersinia pestis in natural foci, its diversity, genetic variability and the function of the vector, thus painting a holistic picture of how plague pandemics have evolved and how the bacterium has adapted perfectly to its environment over such a long period of time.

A second edition of the easy-to-use standard text guiding biomedical researchers in the use of advanced statistical methods.

Fully revised and updated for the fourth edition, the award-winning Oxford Handbook of Public Health Practice remains the first resort for practitioners in the field.

As many medical and healthcare researchers have a love-hate relationship with statistics, the second edition of this practical reference book may make all the difference.

The science of biomedical measurements is experiencing a period of rapid development.

This book covers applications of fractional calculus used for medical and health science.

A Primer of Population Dynamics introduces to the basics of population studies.

Animal welfare has long been recognised as central to the role of the veterinary professional, but this is increasingly aligned with the welfare of humans and the broader environment in which we co-exist.

Signal Detection for Medical Scientists: Likelihood Ratio Based Test-Based Methodology presents the data mining techniques with focus on likelihood ratio test (LRT) based methods for signal detection.

In this original work, Tom Lawry takes readers on a journey of understanding what we learned from fighting a global pandemic and how to apply these learnings to solve healthcare's other big challenges.

Medicine deals with treatments that work often but not always, so treatment success must be based on probability.

This book covers a wide range of topics on the role of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Big Data for healthcare applications and deals with the ethical issues and concerns associated with it.

HIV/AIDS is but one of a number of new and deadly diseases which threaten communities throughout the world.

This book proposes a way to radically renew medicine by extending to medicine the concepts of evolutionary biology.

Basic Statistics and Epidemiology is a straightforward primer in basic statistics that emphasizes its practical use in epidemiology and public health, providing an understanding of essential topics such as study design, data analysis and statistical methods used in the execution of medical research.

The book acts as a guide, taking the reader into the smart system domain and providing theoretical and practical knowledge along with case studies in smart healthcare.

Public Health Surveillance (PHS) is of primary importance in this era of emerging health threats like Ebola, MERS-CoV, influenza, natural and man-made disasters, and non-communicable diseases.

It is common practice to evaluate wastewater to understand drug consumption, from antibiotics to illegal narcotics, and even to analyze dietary habits and trends.

Covering the theory and practice of non-insecticidal control of insect vectors of human disease, this book provides an overview of methods including the use of botanical biocides and insect-derived semiochemicals, with an overall focus on integrated vector management strategies.

Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine.

Written by experts that include originators of some key ideas, chapters in the Handbook of Multiple Testing cover multiple comparison problems big and small, with guidance toward error rate control and insights on how principles developed earlier can be applied to current and emerging problems.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

Tropical Diseases outlines the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases encountered in developing regions---areas where the unexpected can occur and where Western medical capabilities are often unavailable.

In this groundbreaking work, distinguished contributors explore the myriad relationships between networks of social support and the development, treatment, and rehabilitation of individuals with cardiovascular disease.

For every news story in the popular press detailing the horrors and the violence associated with cocaine, there have been corresponding studies in the medical litera- ture shedding new light on our understanding of this most troublesome drug.

A textbook on the use of advanced statistical methods in healthcare sciencesPrimer of Applied Regression & Analysis of Variance is a textbook especially created for medical, public health, and social and environmental science students who need applied (not theoretical) training in the use of statistical methods.

Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of disease.

In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world.

This new edition of Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition enables readers to understand the key statistical techniques used throughout the medical literature.

Sustainability of pension systems, intergeneration fiscal equity under population aging, and accounting for health care benefits for future retirees are examples of problems that cannot be solved without understanding the nature of population forecasts and their uncertainty.

Empirical Likelihood Method in Survival Analysis explains how to use the empirical likelihood method for right censored survival data.

The consequences of childhood obesity are serious and far reaching, with both physical and psychological components that add to its complexity.

The product of six years of collaborative research, this fine biography offers new interpretations of a pioneering figure in anesthesiology, epidemiology, medical cartography, and public health.

Modern ecological and environmental sciences are dominated by observational data.

Competition for research funds in epidemiology, preventive medicine and biostatistics is highly competitive and at the same time, the grant application and review process at such agencies at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has undergone substantial revisions.

Presents an overview of the complex biological systems used within a global public health setting and features a focus on malaria analysis Bridging the gap between agent-based modeling and simulation (ABMS) and geographic information systems (GIS), Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health: Design, Implementation, and Applications for Malaria Epidemiology provides a useful introduction to the development of agent-based models (ABMs) by following a conceptual and biological core model of Anopheles gambiae for malaria epidemiology.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

A comprehensive, balanced account of the theory of statistical inference, its main ideas and controversies.

Praise for previous editions:"e;Gandrud has written a great outline of how a fully reproducible research project should look from start to finish, with brief explanations of each tool that he uses along the way.

This book provides an overview and critical discussion of the main philosophical methods that have dominated the field of bioethics since its origins in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

This benchmark publication assembles information on the current and anticipated effects of climate change on animal health.

This textbook provides the basic concepts of epidemiology while preparing readers with the skills of applying statistical tools in real-life situations.

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This book investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of Indigenous Peoples and assesses the policy responses taken by governments and Indigenous communities across the world.

Taking a comparative approach, this book investigates the ways that obesity and its susceptibilities are framed in science and policy.

Develop Effective Immunogenicity Risk Mitigation StrategiesImmunogenicity assessment is a prerequisite for the successful development of biopharmaceuticals, including safety and efficacy evaluation.

Genetic Association Studies is designed for students of public health, epidemiology, and the health sciecnes, covering the main principles of molecular genetics, population genetics, medical genetics, epidemiology and statistics.

Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of disease.

Recent advancements in signal processing and computerised methods are expected to underpin the future progress of biomedical research and technology, particularly in measuring and assessing signals and images from the human body.