Published July, 2013
By Bibhas Chakraborty, Erica E. M. Moodie and Erica E.M. Moodie
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Statistical Methods for Dynamic Treatment Regimes shares state of the art of statistical methods developed to address questions of estimation and inference for dynamic treatment regimes, a branch of personalized medicine.

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Published May, 2013
By Giovanni Parmigiani, Elizabeth S. Garett, Rafael A. Irizarry and Scott L. Zeger
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book presents practical approaches for the analysis of data from gene expression micro-arrays. The book includes coverage of various packages that are part of the Bioconductor project and several related R tools. The materials presented cover a range of software tools designed for varied audiences.

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Published January, 2013
By Nan M. Laird and Christoph Lange
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book covers the statistical models and methods that are used to understand human genetics, following the historical and recent developments of human genetics.

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Published September, 2012
By Philip Hougaard
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Survival data or more general time-to-event data occur in many areas, including medicine, biology, engineering, economics, and demography, but previously standard methods have requested that all time variables are univariate and independent. As the field is rather new, the concepts and the possible types of data are described in detail.

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Published August, 2012
By Kenneth Lange
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Written to equip students in the mathematical siences to understand and model the epidemiological and experimental data encountered in genetics research. This second edition expands the original edition by over 100 pages and includes new material. Sprinkled throughout the chapters are many new problems.

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Published May, 2012
By Annette J. Dobson and Adrian G. Barnett
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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With global warming increasing the intensity of seasonal weather patterns around the world, a review of the methods for estimating seasonal effects on health is timely.This is the first book on statistical methods for seasonal data written for a health audience.

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Published May, 2012
By Alexander Eric Kramer, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Klaus Krickeberg and Alexander Krämer
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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The book introduces the reader to methodological aspects of epidemiology that are specific for infectious diseases and provides insight into the epidemiology of some classes of infectious diseases characterized by their main modes of transmission.

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Published May, 2012
By Toshiro Tango
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book offers a modern perspective on statistical methods for detecting disease clustering. It offers analysis and illustration of methods for a variety of real data sets, and will provide an invaluable resource for a wide ranging of audience.

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Published March, 2012
By Thomas Hamelryck, Kanti V. Mardia, Jesper Ferkinghoff-Borg and Kanti Mardia
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This book is an edited volume, the goal of which is to provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art in statistical methods applied to problems in structural bioinformatics (and in particular protein structure prediction, simulation, experimental structure determination and analysis).

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Published February, 2012
By Springer, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini, Jr. and Claudio J. Struchiner
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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As well as being a reference for the design, analysis, and interpretation of vaccine studies, the text covers all design and analysis stages, from vaccine development to post-licensure surveillance, presenting likelihood, frequentists, and Bayesian approaches.

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