Statistical Analysis of Human Growth and Development

ISBN-13: 9780367576271 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 378 str.

Yin Bun Cheung

Opis

Designed for nonstatisticians and statisticians new to the analysis of growth and development data, this book is an accessible and practical guide to a wide range of basic and advanced statistical methods that are useful for studying human growth and development. It collects methods scattered throughout the literature and explains how to use the

Spis treści

Introduction. Causal Reasoning and Study Designs. Basic Statistical Concepts and Tools. Quantifying Growth and Development: Use of Existing Tools. Regression Analysis of Quantitative Outcomes. Regression Analysis of Binary Outcomes. Regression Analysis of Censored Outcomes. Analysis of Repeated Measurements and Clustered Data. Quantifying Growth: Development of New Tools. Quantifying Development: Development of New Tools. Quantifying Growth and Development: Longitudinal Measurements. Validity and Reliability. Missing Values and Imputation. Multiple Comparisons. Regression Analysis Strategy. References. Appendices. Index.

O autorze

Yin Bun Cheung is a professor in the Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Office of Clinical Sciences at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore and adjunct professor in the Department of International Health at the University of Tampere in Finland. Dr. Cheung has been studying human growth and development in African and Asian countries for about 15 years.