Inference Principles for Biostatisticians

ISBN-13: 9780367576011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 274 str.

Ian C. Marschner

Opis

This text gives graduate students with diverse backgrounds across the health, medical, social, and mathematical sciences a solid, unified foundation in the principles of statistical inference. Drawing on his extensive experience teaching graduate-level biostatistics courses and working in the pharmaceutical industry, the author covers the theore

Spis treści

Probability and Random Samples. Estimation Concepts. Likelihood. Estimation Methods. Hypothesis Testing Concepts. Hypothesis Testing Methods. Bayesian Inference. Further Inference Topics. Appendices.

O autorze

Ian C. Marschner is head of the Department of Statistics and a professor of statistics at Macquarie University. He is also a professor of biostatistics in the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Clinical Trials Centre at the University of Sydney. He has over 25 years of experience as a biostatistician working on health and medical research, particularly involving clinical trials and epidemiological studies of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV/AIDS. He was previously director of the Asia Biometrics Centre with Pfizer and an associate professor of biostatistics at Harvard University.