AIDS has appeared in more than 130 countries, and over 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. alone. More and more, the public will be depending on statisticians to provide answers about the future course of this epidemic. This comprehensive work confronts the problems that are unique to AIDS research and unites them under a single conceptual framework. It focuses on methods for the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies, the natural history of AIDS and the transmission of HIV, methods for tracking and projecting the course of the epidemic, and statistical issues in...
AIDS has appeared in more than 130 countries, and over 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. alone. More and more, the public will be d...
Mitchell H. Gail Mitchell H. Gail Jacques Benichou
Featuring articles from the prestigious Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, many of which have been revised and updated to include recent developments, the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods also includes newly commissioned articles reflecting the latest thinking in
Cancer Registries
Birth Defect Registries
Meta Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies
Epidemiology Overview
Sample Size
Sex Ratio at Birth
Software Design and Analysis
Featuring contributions from leading experts in...
Featuring articles from the prestigious Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, many of which have been revised and updated to include recent developments, the...
Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health provides theory and examples to demonstrate the importance of absolute risk in counseling patients, devising public health strategies, and clinical management. The book provides sufficient technical detail to allow statisticians, epidemiologists, and clinicians to build, test, and apply models of absolute risk.
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Provides theoretical basis for modeling absolute risk, including competing risks and cause-specific and cumulative incidence regression
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Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health provides theory and examples to demonstrate the importance of abso...
