Case Studies in Biometry
Published on 2. September 1994
Book
Mixed media product
350 pages
978-0-471-58885-6 (ISBN)
Description
Case studies are viewed as an increasingly popular teaching method in applied statistics. These 21 examples have been written at a level accessible to non-experts in biomedicine and statistical methods. The areas covered are biology, AIDS, environmental sciences, clinical medicine, health care and health policy, fisheries, forestry and wildlife, biopharmaceuticals and agriculture. Examples of statistical methods employed in these case studies are linear regression, survival analysis, ordered categorical and loglinear models, logistic regression, principal components and the design of experiments.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
936 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-471-58885-6 (9780471588856)
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Content
Partial table of contents:; ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS; Spatial Pattern Analyses to Detect Rare Disease Clusters (L. Waller, et al.); Prediction Models for Personal Ozone Exposure Assessment (D. Wypij & L.-J; Liu); FORESTRY, FISHERIES, GENETICS; Estimating Pine Seedling Response to Ozone and Acidic Rain (J. Rawlings & S. Spruill); Survival Analysis for Size Regulation of Atlantic Halibut (S. Smith, et al.); HABITAT AND ANIMAL STUDIES; Spatial Association Learning in Hummingbirds (J. Graham & A. Petkau); Time-Series Analyses of Beaver Body Temperatures (P. Reynolds); HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY; Analysis of Attitudes Towards Workplace Smoking Restrictions (S. Bull); CLINICAL TRIALS; Early Lung Cancer Detection Studies (B. Flehinger & M. Kimmel); Quality Control for Bone Mineral Density Scans (S. Wong & N. Lane); EPIDEMIOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY; Patterns of Lung Cancer Risk in Ex-Smokers (B. Gillespie, et al.); Drug Interactions Between Morphine and Marijuana (C. Gennings, et al.); Appendix; References; Indexes.