ADVANCED MEDICAL STATISTICS (2ND EDITION) - Hardcover

Lu, Ying; Fang, Jiqian; Lu Tian; Jin, Hua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9814583294 ISBN 13: 9789814583299

Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 2016

Synopsis

The book aims to provide both comprehensive reviews of the classical methods and an introduction to new developments in medical statistics. The topics range from meta analysis, clinical trial design, causal inference, personalized medicine to machine learning and next generation sequence analysis.Very broad topics in medical statistics are addressed. Not only is a rigorous theoretical background emphasized but motivation, applications, examples and computational aspects of the related statistical methods are given adequate weightage. The volume thus provides a convenient starting point for readers who want to be familiar with the most current status of an area of interest.

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Review

Review of the First Edition:

"Overall the book covers a wide variety of applications. Each method is presented in sufficient depth to allow the reader to understand when the method(s) can be used ... this book would be a useful resource for any practitioner in medical research." -- Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 9814583294
• ISBN 13: 9789814583299
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1458