Probability, statistics, and modelling in public health / edited by Mikhail Nikulin, Daniel Commenges, Catherine Huber.
"Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health consists of refereed contributions by expert biostatisticians that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topic...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer Science+Business Media,
[2006]
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| Online Access: | Springer eBooks |
| Summary: | "Probability, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health consists of refereed contributions by expert biostatisticians that discuss various probabilistic and statistical models used in public health. Many of them are based on the work of Marvin Zelen of the Harvard School of Public Health. Topics discussed include models based on Markov and semi-Markov processes, multi-state models, models and methods in lifetime data analysis, accelerated failure models, design and analysis of clinical trials, Bayesian methods, pharmaceutical and environmental statistics, degradation models, epidemiological methods, screening programs, early detection of diseases, and measurement and analysis of quality of life."--Publisher's website. |
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| Item Description: | " ... a special symposium, Probabilitíes, Statistics and Modelling in Public Health, was organized in Marvin's honor ... on September 22-23, 2003, in Bordeaux."--Preface. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiv, 479 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0387260234 1280460962 9780387260235 9781280460968 |