Modern Issues and Methods in Biostatistics

• Main Author: Chang, Mark (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Data mining.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Computational intelligence.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Mathematics Education.; Computational Intelligence.

Classic biostatistics, a branch of statistical science, has as its main focus the applications of statistics in public health, the life sciences, and the pharmaceutical industry. Modern biostatistics, beyond just a simple application of statistics, is a confluence of statistics and knowledge of mult...

Table of Contents:

• Multiple-Hypothesis Testing Strategy
• Pharmaceutical Decision and Game Theory
• Noninferiority Trial Design
• Adaptive Trial Design
• Missing Data Imputation and Analysis
• Multivariate and Multistage Survival Data Modeling
• Meta-analysis
• Data Mining and Signal Detection
• Monte Carlo Simulation
• Bayesian Methods and Applications.-.