Epidemiology and Medical statistics

A thorough treatment of the statistical methods used to analyze doubly truncated data In The Statistical Analysis of Doubly Truncated Data, an expert team of statisticians delivers an up-to-date review of existing methods used to deal with randomly truncated data, with a focus on the challenging problem of random double truncation.

Stigma leads to poorer health.

The concept of frailty offers a convenient way to introduce unobserved heterogeneity and associations into models for survival data.

Social Capital and Health discusses social capital-a concept that originated in the social sciences-and its application to the field of public health.

In this age of information, the manipulation, analysis, and interpretation of data have become a fundamental part of professional life; nowhere more so than in the delivery of healthcare.

Epidemiology is an essential discipline which influences many aspects of clinical practice for doctors, dentists, and other health practitioners.

This practical reference guide from experts in the field details why and how to establish successful antibiotic stewardship programs.

This book, originally published in 2004, is concerned with the links between human evolution and infectious disease.

We began writing this book in parallel with developing software for handling and analysing spatial data withR (R Development Core Team, 2008).

During the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States.

Longitudinal data are ubiquitous across Medicine, Public Health, Public Policy, Psychology, Political Science, Biology, Sociology and Education, yet many longitudinal data sets remain improperly analyzed.

Asks whether personalised medicine is superior to ''one-size-fits-all'' treatment.

Drug development is an iterative process.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to computational epidemiology, highlighting its major methodological paradigms throughout the development of the field while emphasizing the needs for a new paradigm shift in order to most effectively address the increasingly complex real-world challenges in disease control and prevention.

This practical and thorough book explains when and how to use models and techniques for the analysis of competing risks and intermediate states.

Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory, often progressive, and potentially disabling disease of the central nervous system.

The public is bombarded daily with reports about risk factors, many conflicting with each other, others accepted as "e;scientific truth"e; for awhile, then scientifically disproved, yet others questionable that later prove to be true.

Data in the genomics field is booming.

This volume of the series Advances in Risk Analysis consists of papers presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, which was held October 30 through November 2 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.

The truth is, few people know the first thing about clinical research.

"e;The definitive reference for budding and experienced cancer epidemiologists alike.

Simplifies the treatment of statistical inference focusing on how to specify and interpret models in the context of testing causal theories.

With ever-rising healthcare costs, evidence generation through Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR) plays an increasingly important role in decision-making about the allocation of resources.

With the exception of a few tropical medicine schools worldwide, current medical education programs include almost zero discussion of the interface between infectious diseases and entomology.

This is the first textbook to focus on environmental threats to child health.

Review of the First Edition"e;The goal of this book, as stated by the authors, is to fill the knowledge gap that exists between developed statistical methods and the applications of these methods.

The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly affected the healthcare sector across the globe.

The new edition of this critically praised textbook continues to provide the most comprehensive overview of the concepts, methods, and research advances in the field; particularly the application of molecular genomics and of neuroimaging.

"e;Aging and Chronic Disease"e; provides new perspectives on how aging is affected by chronic disease.

There is an increasing need for educational resources for statisticians and investigators.

Analyses and assesses the techniques of outcome measurement and looks at ways it should be implemented.

Focuses on the prevention and treatment of missing data in longitudinal clinical trials, looking at key principles and explaining analytic methods.

Statistical Design, Monitoring, and Analysis of Clinical Trials, Second Edition concentrates on the biostatistics component of clinical trials.

The intestinal protozoan Giardia was first described over 300 years ago in 1681 by Leeuwenhoek, from his own stools.

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer hardware and software, and the development of sophisticated analytical methods.

This book provides the most current overview of the evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV/AIDS.

In 1969 the first edition of this book introduced the concepts of statistics and their medical application to readers with no formal training in this area.

This book provides family doctors with a wealth of evidence-based indications and tips regarding geriatric medicine and approaches for the management of older patients, to be applied in daily practice.

Handbook of Methods for Designing, Monitoring, and Analyzing Dose-Finding Trials gives a thorough presentation of state-of-the-art methods for early phase clinical trials.

A practical and clarifying approach to aging and aging-related diseases Providing a thorough and extensive theoretical framework, The Biostatistics of Aging: From Gompertzian Mortality to an Index of Aging-Relatedness addresses the surprisingly subtlenotion with consequential biomedical and public health relevance of what it means for acondition to be related to aging.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the use of breast MRI for screening high-risk women, including those with familial-genetic hereditary predisposition and previous chest radiation therapy, typically lymphoma survivors.

This book is a comprehensive and practical introduction of clinical epidemiology for students and practitioners.

Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health provides theory and examples to demonstrate the importance of absolute risk in counseling patients, devising public health strategies, and clinical management.

This book has been well received in many places and in many countries.

The comprehensive textbook provides the definitive account of effective care for pediatric HIV patients.

This book provides a comprehensive overview for those interested in research and promoting sexual health in older people, as well as a "e;go-to"e; guide on the topic of sexual behaviour in older adults.

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