Published January, 2014
By Jong-Hyeon Jeong
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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This is a monograph on the concept of residual life, which is an alternative summary measure of time-to-event data, or survival data. The mean residual life has been used for many years under the name of life expectancy, so it is a natural concept for summarizing survival or reliability data.

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Published January, 2014
By Ton J. Cleophas and Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics
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This timely guide explains how to derive the most benefit from automatically mining the vast, and growing, quantities of information in medical databases. It lays out the fruits of the authors' expertise in a condensed, easily consulted format.

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Published January, 2014
By Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Polyxeni Potter
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published January, 2014
By Stacey B. Day and T.A. Lambo
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The growing reliance on truly international health strategies by national and international agencies, including the more definite and extended practice of preven tive medicine, has provided the means to achieve significant gains in the quality of health in years to come.

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Published January, 2014
By Winfried Schröder, Gunther Schmidt and Winfried Schroeder
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science
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This book investigates the spatial distribution of potential temperature-driven malaria transmissions, using the basic reproduction rate (R0) to model the reproduction of the malaria pathogen Plasmodium vivax.

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Published January, 2014
By Jen-pei Liu, Shein-Chung Chow, Shein–Chung Chow, Jen–Pei Liu and SC Chow
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
Series: Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics
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Clinical trials are conducted to allow safety and efficacy data to be collected for health interventions. These trials can only take place once satisfactory information has been gathered on the quality of the non-clinical safety.

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Published December, 2013
By Kelly H. Zou, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Jose M. Alvir, Demissie Alemayehu, Tara Symonds and Jose Ma. J. Alvir
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Published December, 2013
By Mark Woodward
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Chapman & Hall/CRC)
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Published December, 2013
By , Rachel Cooper, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Diana Kuh, Rebecca Hardy, Marcus Richards and Health and Ageing at the University College London (UCL)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Life Course Approach to Adult Health
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A Life Course Approach to Healthy Age investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world in one wide-ranging volume.

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Published December, 2013
By Robert Higgo, Rob Poole and Catherine A. Robinson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Poverty is not inevitable, even in a difficult economic climate, and there is strong scientific evidence that poverty is a cause of mental illness. This book brings together a body of knowledge from biomedical and social science literature, providing an evidence-based resource for mental health professionals, social scientists and their students.

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