Published November, 2010
By Nicole A. Lazar and Nicole Lazar
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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In the pages of mainstream publications, including The New York Times and Wired, readers can learn about cutting-edge research into topics such as understanding how customers react to products and - vertisements ("If your brain has a 'buy button,' what pushes it?", The New York Times,October19,2004),howviewersrespondtocampaignads("Using M.

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Published November, 2010
By Odd Aalen, Ornulf Borgan and Hakon Gjessing
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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The aim of this book is to bridge the gap between standard textbook models and a range of models where the dynamic structure of the data manifests itself fully. they allow sensible interpretations of a number of surprising artifacts seen in population data. The stochastic process framework is naturally connected to causality.

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Published November, 2010
By Naitee Ting
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Dosing information on drug labels is based on discussion between the pharmaceutical manufacturer and the drug regulatory agency, and the label is a summary of results obtained from many scientific experiments.

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Published November, 2010
By David Siegmund and Benjamin Yakir
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book details the statistical concepts used in gene mapping, first in the experimental context of crosses of inbred lines and then in outbred populations, primarily humans.

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Published November, 2010
By Richard J. Cook, Jerald F. Lawless and Jerald Lawless
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book presents models and statistical methods for the analysis of recurrent event data. More general intensity-based models are also considered, as well as simpler models that focus on rate or mean functions.

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Published November, 2010
By Luc Duchateau and Paul Janssen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Readers will find in the pages of this book a treatment of the statistical analysis of clustered survival data. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyze clustered survival data. In this book different methods based on the frailty model are described and it is demonstrated how they can be used to analyze clustered survival data.

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Published October, 2010
By Peter Schlattmann
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Patients are not alike! This simple truth is often ignored in the analysis of me- cal data, since most of the time results are presented for the "average" patient. As a result, potential variability between patients is ignored when presenting, e.g., the results of a multiple linear regression model.

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Published July, 2010
By David G. Kleinbaum and Mitchel Klein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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The three new chapters are as follows: Chapter 8: Additional Modeling Strategy Issues Chapter 9: Assessing Goodness of Fit for Logistic Regression Chapter 10: Assessing Discriminatory Performance of a Binary Logistic Model: ROC Curves In adding these three chapters, we have moved Chaps.

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Published February, 2010
By Adrian Barnett, Annette J. Dobson and Adrian G. Barnett
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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With global warming increasing the intensity of seasonal weather patterns around the world, a review of the methods for estimating seasonal effects on health is timely.This is the first book on statistical methods for seasonal data written for a health audience.

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Published December, 2009
By Alexander Eric Kramer, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Klaus Krickeberg and Alexander Krämer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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The book introduces the reader to methodological aspects of epidemiology that are specific for infectious diseases and provides insight into the epidemiology of some classes of infectious diseases characterized by their main modes of transmission.

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