Published March, 2011
By Kung-Jong Lui and KJ Lui
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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This book provides a systematic and organized approach to analyzing data for a RCT with noncompliance under the most frequently-encountered situations, including parallel sampling, stratified sampling, cluster sampling, parallel sampling with subsequent missing outcomes, and a series of dependent binomial sampling for repeated measurements.

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Published March, 2011
By Betsy Foxman
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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The application of molecular genetic and biologic techniques to infectious disease epidemiology dramatically improves measurement of disease and putative risk factors increasing our ability to detect and track outbreaks, identify risk factors. This title examines these opportunities and methodologic challenges giving specific examples.

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Published March, 2011
By Mitchell H. Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated. It describes how to perform and interpret multivariable analysis, using plain, non-mathematical language. It focuses on the nuts and bolts of performing research, and prepares the reader to perform and interpret multivariable models.

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Published March, 2011
By Mitchell H. Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Now in its third edition, this highly successful text has been fully revised and updated. It describes how to perform and interpret multivariable analysis, using plain, non-mathematical language. It focuses on the nuts and bolts of performing research, and prepares the reader to perform and interpret multivariable models.

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Published February, 2011
By Myron Echenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa.

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Published February, 2011
By James D. Malley, Karen G. Malley and Sinisa Pajevic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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Biomedical researchers need machine learning techniques to make predictions such as survival/death or response to treatment when data sets are large and complex. This highly motivating introduction to these machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures, and connects these new methods to familiar techniques.

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Published February, 2011
By James D. Malley, Karen G. Malley and Sinisa Pajevic
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Biomedical researchers need machine learning techniques to make predictions such as survival/death or response to treatment when data sets are large and complex. This highly motivating introduction to these machines explains underlying principles in nontechnical language, using many examples and figures, and connects these new methods to familiar techniques.

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Published February, 2011
By Eric Emerson and Stewart L. Einfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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'Challenging' behaviours such as aggression or self-injury significantly reduce the quality of life for people with intellectual disabilities. This book, fully updated and revised, summarises current knowledge about how these behaviours develop and what can be done to provide effective support for people with intellectual disabilities.

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Published February, 2011
By Crispin Jenkinson, Michele Peters and Mark B. Bromberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Patient-reported outcome measures are central to the evaluation of medical care and treatment regimes. Essential reading for clinicians and researchers in the field of neurology, this book is the first to outline the development and application of a variety of such measures in a wide range of neurological conditions.

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Published February, 2011
By Steve Selvin
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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In this innovative new book, Steve Selvin provides readers with a clear understanding of intermediate biostatistical methods without advanced mathematics or statistical theory. This text answers the important question: After a typical first-year course in statistical methods, what next?

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