Epidemiology and Medical statistics

This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax.

This is the second edition of this text on logistic regression methods, ori- nally published in 1994.

Statistical methodology is of great importance to medical research and clinical practice.

In 2014, a 28-year old British doctor found himself co-running the Ebola isolation unit in Sierra Leone's main hospital after the doctor in charge had been killed by the virus.

This book makes an original contribution in addressing contemporary critical discussions and reflections on international health policies, strategies, programmes, systems, diseases, disasters, and public health issues.

The first edition of Preventing Hospital Infections led readers through a step-by-step description of a quality improvement intervention as it might unfold in a model hospital, pinpointing the likely obstacles and offering practical strategies for how to overcome them.

Wide-Ranging Coverage of Parametric Modeling in Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Effects ModelsMixed Effects Models for the Population Approach: Models, Tasks, Methods and Tools presents a rigorous framework for describing, implementing, and using mixed effects models.

This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, provides an exhaustive review of the state of the art in the management of prostate cancer, from screening to treatment, with emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach.

This volume, focusing on breast cancer, is part of a survey of health care needs for specific conditions, published on behalf of the Department of Health.

COVID-19 Management in the Brain and Body describes the management of patients with the novel coronavirus in their varied symptoms.

This volume is based on the program of the Second International Conference on Drugs of Abuse, Immunity and AIDS, held in Clearwater Beach, FL in June 1992.

Why are rainfall, carcinogens, and primary care physicians distributed unevenly over space?

This new edition of Health Studies provides an authoritative and contemporary introduction to the study of health.

The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health practitioners and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness for all.

This textbook addresses postgraduate students in applied mathematics, probability, and statistics, as well as computer scientists, biologists, physicists and economists, who are seeking a rigorous introduction to applied stochastic processes.

This book covers some of the most novel genetic and genomic concepts in epidemiology, such as geospatial statistics and systems biology from a clinical point of view by explaining molecular applications with accessible human studies.

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Simply stated, this book bridges the gap between statistics and philosophy.

The European Federation for Medical Informatics has established itself as a regional body coordinating activity in medical informatics.

What is 'digital health'?

Empirical Likelihood Methods in Biomedicine and Health provides a compendium of nonparametric likelihood statistical techniques in the perspective of health research applications.

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

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.

Much research has attempted to show direct linear relations between genes and disorder.

The globalization of trade and increasing international travel and migration poses huge challenges for health practitioners and policy makers who have to meet legal and policy obligations to provide health care of equal quality and effectiveness for all.

Healthy ageing has long been a neglected area of epidemiological research as the traditional focus has been on specific chronic diseases of older life.

This book covers the fundamentals of IoT and healthcare systems for carrying out system architectures, protocols, wearable devices, and interoperability.

This book presents new and powerful advanced statistical methods that have been used in modern medicine, drug development, and epidemiology.

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Distinctively, this book brings together an end-to-end understanding of heatwaves, that is, a consideration of their causes, consequences for human and natural systems and societal responses to them in the form of adaptation and mitigation actions.

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Tutorial chapters by leaders in the field introduce state-of-the-art methods to handle information integration problems of omics data.

This is the first comprehensive text on the methodological issues in epidemiologic research on infectious diseases.

The two parts of this volume feature seventeen and six extended conference abstracts corresponding to selected talks given by participants at "e;Joint CRM-Imperial College Workshop in Complex Systems"e; and "e;Emergence, Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases"e; respectively, both held at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona in spring 2013.

A bite-sized visual interactive guide to medical statistics for the beginner.

Handbook on the Toxicology of Metals, Fourth Edition bridges the gap between established knowledgebase and new advances in metal toxicology to provide one essential reference for all those involved in the field.

This book is intended to show the great achievements and valuable experience of Chinese public health practices and epidemiological theories and methods.

Giving much more attention to noninferiority testing, this second edition provides readers with a rich repertoire of efficient solutions to specific equivalence and noninferiority testing problems frequently encountered in the analysis of real data sets.

This text provides a solid understanding of the various statistical topics relevant to the design, monitoring, and analysis of a clinical trial.

This book is designed to be a practical study in infectious disease dynamics.

The alarm sounded by Canada's confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has reaffirmed the exigency of establishing improved safeguards and more aggressive surveillance protocols in North America and around the world.

Social Determinants of Health, 2nd Edition gives an authoritative overview of the social and economic factors which are known to be the most powerful determinants of population health in modern societies.

Marketing text: This book covers the overlap between informatics, computer science, philosophy of causation, and causal inference in epidemiology and population health research.

This timely new textbook lays bare the ways in which disease and disaster can turn politicians into global leaders or national liabilities.

The Frontiers in Cardiovascular Health varies between and within nations, depend- ing upon the level at which the battle is fought for better cardiovascular health.

This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies.

Public Health is one of the fastest growing university programs in the United States today.

Do you find statistics overwhelming and confusing?