Applied Statistical Inference Likelihood and Bayes /

• Main Authors: Held, Leonhard (Author), Sabanés Bové, Daniel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.

This book covers modern statistical inference based on likelihood with applications in medicine, epidemiology and biology. Two introductory chapters discuss the importance of statistical models in applied quantitative research and the central role of the likelihood function. The rest of the book is...