Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

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1. Applied Meta-Analysis with R

   By Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, Karl E. Peace

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   In biostatistical research and courses, practitioners and students often lack a thorough understanding of how to apply statistical methods to synthesize biomedical and clinical trial data. Filling this knowledge gap, Applied Meta-Analysis with R shows how to implement statistical meta-analysis...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
2. Randomized Phase II Cancer Clinical Trials

   By Sin-Ho Jung

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   In cancer research, a traditional phase II trial is designed as a single-arm trial that compares the experimental therapy to a historical control. This simple trial design has led to several adverse issues, including increased false positivity of phase II trial results and negative phase III trials...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
3. Bayesian Methods in Health Economics

   By Gianluca Baio

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   Health economics is concerned with the study of the cost-effectiveness of health care interventions. This book provides an overview of Bayesian methods for the analysis of health economic data. After an introduction to the basic economic concepts and methods of evaluation, it presents Bayesian...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
4. Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size

   By Robert G. Newcombe

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size illustrates the use of effect size measures and corresponding confidence intervals as more informative alternatives to the most basic and widely used significance tests. The book provides you with a deep understanding of what...

   Published August 24th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Medical Biostatistics, Third Edition

   By Abhaya Indrayan

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Third Edition focuses on the statistical aspects of medicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. The author concludes "Just as results of medical...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
6. Design and Analysis of Bridging Studies

   Edited by Jen-pei Liu, Shein-Chung Chow, Chin-Fu Hsiao

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   As the development of medicines has become more globalized, the geographic variations in the efficacy and safety of pharmaceutical products need to be addressed. To accelerate the product development process and shorten approval time, researchers are beginning to design multiregional trials that...

   Published July 25th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
7. Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data

   Methods and Applications

   Edited by Ding-Geng (Din) Chen, Jianguo Sun, Karl E. Peace

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods and Applications collects the most recent techniques, models, and computational tools for interval-censored time-to-event data. Top biostatisticians from academia, biopharmaceutical industries, and government agencies discuss how these advances are...

   Published July 18th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
8. Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data

   With Applications in R

   By Dimitris Rizopoulos

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   In longitudinal studies it is often of interest to investigate how a marker that is repeatedly measured in time is associated with a time to an event of interest, e.g., prostate cancer studies where longitudinal PSA level measurements are collected in conjunction with the time-to-recurrence. Joint...

   Published June 21st 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
9. Biostatistics: A Computing Approach

   By Stewart Anderson

   Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

   The emergence of high-speed computing has facilitated the development of many exciting statistical and mathematical methods in the last 25 years, broadening the landscape of available tools in statistical investigations of complex data. Biostatistics: A Computing Approach focuses on visualization...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Chapman and Hall/CRC
10. Randomized Clinical Trials of Nonpharmacological Treatments

    Edited by Isabelle Boutron, Philippe Ravaud, David Moher

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    Nonpharmacological treatments include a wide variety of treatments such as surgery, technical procedures, implantable and non-implantable devices, rehabilitation, psychotherapy, and behavioral interventions. Unlike pharmacological treatments, these have no specific requirements for approval....

    Published December 18th 2011 by Chapman and Hall/CRC