Published January, 2013
By Craig Mallinckrodt and Craig H. Mallinckrodt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Focuses on the prevention and treatment of missing data in longitudinal clinical trials, looking at key principles and explaining analytic methods.

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Published January, 2013
By Richard M. Simon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This book focuses on novel approaches that provide a reliable basis for identifying which patients are likely to benefit from each treatment. Aimed at both clinical investigators and statisticians, it covers the development and validation of prognostic and predictive biomarkers and their integration into clinical trials.

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Published August, 2011
By Henrica C. W. de Vet, Caroline B. Terwee, Lidwine B. Mokkink and Dirk L. Knol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Measurement instruments are essential in medicine to assess the severity of diseases, monitor health status or evaluate the effects of interventions. Learn how to improve these measurements with this book, which provides handholds for the development and evaluation of measurement instruments in all clinical disciplines.

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Published August, 2011
By Henrica C. W. de Vet, Caroline B. Terwee, Lidwine B. Mokkink and Dirk L. Knol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Measurement instruments are essential in medicine to assess the severity of diseases, monitor health status or evaluate the effects of interventions. Learn how to improve these measurements with this book, which provides handholds for the development and evaluation of measurement instruments in all clinical disciplines.

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Published February, 2011
By James D. Malley, Karen G. Malley and Sinisa Pajevic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Biomedical researchers need machine learning techniques to make predictions such as survival/death or response to treatment when data sets are large and complex. This highly motivating introduction to these machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures, and connects these new methods to familiar techniques.

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Published March, 2008
By Steve Selvin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This practical guide for readers with a minimal background in statistics shows how to analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the help of modern computer systems. The author introduces key methods of survival analysis that are also central to statistical analysis in general.

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Published April, 2007
By Sarah Boslaugh and Sarah E. Boslaugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This is the only book to provide both a practical introduction to secondary data analysis and a list of major sources of secondary data in the United States. Entries for each data source include the focus of the data, years available, data collection process used, and directions about how to access the data and supporting materials.

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Published April, 2007
By Sarah Boslaugh and Sarah E. Boslaugh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This is the only book to provide both a practical introduction to secondary data analysis and a list of major sources of secondary data in the United States. Entries for each data source include the focus of the data, years available, data collection process used, and directions about how to access the data and supporting materials.

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Published March, 2006
By Jos W. R. Twisk, Brian S. Everitt, Susan S. Ellenberg, Robert Elston and Frank Harrell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This is a practical introduction to multilevel analysis, written for non-mathematicians.

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