The Evolution of the Use of Mathematics in Cancer Research

• Main Authors: Gutiérrez Diez, Pedro J. (Author), Russo, Irma H. (Author), Russo, Jose (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Pharmacology.; Biomedicine.; Cancer Research.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

This book is designed for advanced students and researchers pursuing the use of biostatistics and biomathematics in their investigations in biology and medicine in general, and in cancer in particular. Each chapter has been conceived as a part in the whole in such a way that information flows easily...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Historical Introduction
• Descriptive biostatistics
• Inferential biostatistics I: Estimating values of biomedical magnitudes
• Inferential biostatistics II: Estimating biomedical behaviors
• Equations: Formulating biomedical laws and biomedical magnitudes
• Systems of equations: The explanation of biomedical phenomena(I). Basic questions
• Systems of equations: The explanation of biomedical phenomena(II). Dynamic interdependencies
• Optimal control theory: From knowledge to control (I). Basic concepts
• Optimal control theory: From knowledge to control (II). Biomedical applications
• Game theory
• Index.