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American Plagues
Lessons from Our Battles with Disease
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, and polio, fearful diseases that once beset Americans, are now largely, just unhappy history. Yet from our confrontations with these past plagues come lessons that inform today’s struggles to understand and remedy problems like HIV/AIDS, coronary heart disease, and...
by Professor Janet Peacock, Dr Philip Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2010
To practice evidence-based medicine, doctors need to understand how research is conducted and be able to critically appraise research evidence. A sound understanding of medical statistics is essential for the correct evaluation of medical research and the appropriate implementation of findings in...
by M. Harris, G. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2008
This new edition of Medical Statistics Made Easy 2nd edition enables readers to understand the key statistical techniques used throughout the medical literature.
Featuring a comprehensive updating of the 'Statistics at work' section, this new edition retains a consistent, concise, and user-friendly...
by David Clayton, Michael Hills
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of...
Easy Interpretation of Biostatistics E-Book
The Vital Link to Applying Evidence in Medical Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2012
Learn biostatistics the easy way. This outstanding resource presents the key concepts you need to understand biostatistics and how to apply them in clinical medicine. Easy-to-understand examples and analogies explain complex concepts, and practical applications provide you with real tools for use...
Multivariable Analysis
A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Public Health Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated with expanded sections on cutting-edge techniques including Poisson regression, negative binomial regression, multinomial logistic regression and proportional odds regression. As before, it focuses on easy-to-follow...
by Elisa T. Lee, John Wenyu Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Praise for the Third Edition
“. . . an easy-to read introduction to survival analysis which covers the major concepts and techniques of the subject.” —Statistics in Medical Research
Updated and expanded to reflect the latest developments, Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
“Methods of Clinical Epidemiology” serves as a text on methods useful to clinical researchers. It provides a clear introduction to the common research methodology specific to clinical research for both students and researchers. This book sets out to fill the gap left by texts that concentrate...
by Bertram K.C. Chan, PhD
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Since it first appeared in 1996, the open-source programming language R has become increasingly popular as an environment for statistical analysis and graphical output. This is the first textbook to present classical biostatistical analysis for epidemiology and related public health sciences to students...
Statistical Modeling for Biomedical Researchers
A Simple Introduction to the Analysis of Complex Data
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2009
The second edition of this standard text guides biomedical researchers in the selection and use of advanced statistical methods and the presentation of results to clinical colleagues. It assumes no knowledge of mathematics beyond high school level and is accessible to anyone with an introductory background...
by B Antonisamy, Prasanna S. Premkumar, Solomon Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Principles and Practice of Biostatistics emphasizes the basic aspects of biostatistics most often used in the teaching and research areas of medical, nursing and allied health sciences.
Written in a simple tone and chapters are organized in logical order to ease the process of understanding.
Covers...
Regression Methods in Biostatistics
Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous outcomes, logistic models for binary outcomes, the Cox model for right-censored survival times, repeated-measures models for longitudinal...
Reboot Your Brain
A Natural Approach to Fighting Memory Loss, Dementia, Alzheimer's, Brain Aging, and More
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drug-free techniques for improving cognitive abilities and emotional health.
Quality of life means keeping all your organs and systems functioning at their best—and that includes your brain.
The culmination of thirty-five years of research in anti-aging sciences, this book provides...
Iris Grace
How Thula the Cat Saved a Little Girl and Her Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
“Iris’ story, as told and photographed by her mother, beautifully deciphers the way a child with autism sees and approaches the world . . . Compelling reading” (Booklist, starred review).
Iris Grace is a beautiful little girl who, from a very young age, barely communicated, avoided social...