Published December, 2008
By Kenneth G. Manton, Igor Akushevich, Julia Kravchenko and K.G. Manton
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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The purpose of this book is to examine the etiology of cancer in large human populations using mathematical models developed from an inter-disciplinary perspective of the population epidemiological, biodemographic, genetic and physiological basis of the mechanisms of cancer initiation and progression.

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Published October, 2008
By Ewout W. Steyerberg and Ewout Steyerberg
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Prediction models are important in various fields, including medicine, physics, meteorology, and finance. Prediction models will become more relevant in the medical field with the increase in knowledge on potential predictors of outcome, e.g.

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Published August, 2008
By Odd Aalen, Ornulf Borgan and Hakon Gjessing
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This text bridges the gap between standard models, and those where the dynamic structure of the data manifests itself fully. The common thread is stochastic processes. The authors show how martingales and stochastic integrals fit with censored data.

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Published July, 2008
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 December, 2007
By Luc Duchateau and Paul Janssen
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
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 this data, and this book offers different methods based on these models.

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Published August, 2007
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 July, 2007
By Rongling Wu, George Casella, Changxing Ma and Ma Changxing
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Aimed at graduate students and researchers and including statistical models and analytical procedures, this book introduces the basic concepts and methods used in the statistical analysis and modeling of the DNA-based marker and phenotypic data that arise in agriculture and related fields.

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Published March, 2007
By Daniel Sorensen and Daniel Gianola
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book provides the foundations of likelihood, Bayesian and MCMC methods in the context of genetic analysis of quantitative traits. Effort has been made to relate biological to statistical parameters throughout, and extensive examples are included to illustrate the arguments.

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Published March, 2007
By David Siegmund and Benjamin Yakir
Publisher: Springer (Springer New York)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book details the statistical concepts used in gene mapping. It presents elementary principles of probability and statistics, which are implemented by computational tools based on the R programming language.

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Published December, 2006
By Antonella Bacchieri and Giovanni Della Cioppa
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Here is a new book on methods and issues in clinical research. Integrate medical and statistical components of clinical research. Give space to the ethical implications of methodological issues in clinical research. The book ends with a brief description of the drug development process and the phases of clinical development.

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