This book is primarily aimed at the medical researchers and clinicians who wish to gain insight into stastistical principles and methods. The first section covers basic aspects of statistics, with chapters on the presentation and summary of data and an introduction to important …
This book aims to give a self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology. The book is intended primarily for students enrolled for a masters degree in epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, or biostatistics, and should be suitable both as the basis for a taught cou…
This text reviews advances in financial and actuarial modeling. It offers an analysis of American options models, mortality adjustment factors for increased risk individuals and time trend regression adjustments for mortality tables.
Applied statistics is more than data analysis, but it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. David Cox and Christl Donnelly distil decades of scientific experience into usable principles for the successful application of statistics, showing how good statistical strategy shape…
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Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This…
Most questions in social and biomedical sciences are causal in nature: what would happen to individuals, or to groups, if part of their environment were changed? In this groundbreaking text, two world-renowned experts present statistical methods for studying such questions. This…
Textformat="02"] A comprehensive review of analyses of basic and complex ANOVA models through traditional approaches and multiple regression, integrating the most recent releases of MINTAB, SAS, SPSS, and SYSTAT. In each chapter, the basic model and its nume
Hard-to-survey populations
"Surveys are used extensively in psychology, sociology and business, as well as many other areas, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to conduct. Some segments of the population are hard to sample, some are hard to find, others are hard to persuade to participate in sur…
"Surveys are used extensively in psychology, sociology and business, as well as many other areas, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to conduct. Some segments of the population are hard to sample, some are hard to find, others are hard to persuade to participate in sur…
"Preface Functional data analysis has been a popular statistical research topic for the last three decades. Functional data are often obtained via observing a number of subjects over time, space or other continua densely. They are frequently collected from various research areas…
"Preface We wrote this book because there is a large gap between the elementary statistics course that most people take and the more advanced research methods courses taken by graduate and upper-division students so they can carry out research projects. These advanced courses in…
Statistics with Confidence is widely acclaimed classic introduction intervals. Tjis second edition has been thoroughly revised and expanded. New chapters include: - Diagnostics studies - Clinical trials and meta analyses - Confidence intervals and sample sizes.
"Circular Statistics in R provides the most comprehensive guide to the analysis of circular data in over a decade. Circular data arise in many scientific contexts, both from angular observations, and from daily or seasonal activity patterns. ... The natural way of representing s…
Social science data analysts have long considered the mediation of intermediate variables of primary importance in understanding individuals' social, behavioural and other kinds of outcomes. In this book, Dawn Iacobucci uses the method known as structural equation modeling (SEM)…
In recent years, research has generated important advances in theory and applications of skew-elliptical distributions. This is an exciting and fast-growing field of research that brings together both frequentist and Bayesian statisticians. Along with an explosion of interest in…
