Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population An Interdisciplinary Approach /

• Main Authors: Manton, K.G (Author), Akushevich, Igor (Author), Kravchenko, Julia (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Cancer research.; Epidemiology.; Bioinformatics.; Demography.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Cancer Research.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.

This book is the first of its kind to describe interdisciplinary approaches to biomedical studies. It views analyses of biomedical data sets, such as cancer morbidity and mortality, from a different and richer than classic epidemiological perspective by using mathematical modeling methods, including...

Table of Contents:

• Cancer Contra Human: Cohabitation with Casualties?
• Cancer Modeling: How Far Can We Go?
• Cancer Risk Factors
• Standard and Innovative Statistical Methods for Empirically Analyzing Cancer Morbidity and Mortality
• Stochastic Methods of Analysis
• U.S. Cancer Morbidity and Mortality Trends
• U.S. Cancer Morbidity: Modeling Age-Patterns of Cancer Histotypes
• Risk Factors Intervention
• Cancer Prevention.