Published December, 2010
By Daniel Courgeau and D. Courgeau
Publisher: Springer
Series: Methodos Series
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The purpose of the multilevel approach is to understand individual behaviors taking into account the social context in which they occur.

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Published December, 2010
By Parasmani Dasgupta, Roland C. Hauspie and Roland Hauspie
Publisher: Springer
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twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560 children, aged six months to twenty years. Whitehouse in the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study.

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Published December, 2010
By Jianhong Wu and Anatoly Swishchuk
Publisher: Springer
Series: Mathematical Modelling: Theory and Applications
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Published December, 2010
By Ann O'Leary, Loretta Sweet Jemmott and Ann O'Leary, PhD
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Aids Prevention and Mental Health
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Although women were understudied in the early years of the epidemic, research and practice devoted to understanding and ameliorating the effects of the AIDS epidemic have begun in recent years.

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Published December, 2010
By Joel Cohen, Kenneth G. Manton, J.B. Weinstein, Eric Stallard and Joel E. Cohen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Using a rigorous account of statistical forecasting efforts that led to the successful resolution of the John-Manville asbestos litigation, the models in this volume can be adapted to forecast industry-wide asbestos liability.

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Published December, 2010
By Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart and Josianne Duchene
Publisher: Springer
Series: European Studies of Population
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This work covers various important issues in life table construction and use. It. includes a non-technical overview, compares various methods of decomposing the difference in life expectancies, discusses the finding of suitable indicators and models, and deals with age, period, and cohort effects in mortality.

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Published December, 2010
By Ewa Tabeau, Anneke van den Berg Jeths, C.R. Heathcote, E. Tabeau and Christopher Heathcote
Publisher: Springer
Series: European Studies of Population
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Information on future mortality trends is essential for population forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, and many other purposes.

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Published December, 2010
By J. Mark Elwood, J.Mark Elwood, David Hill and Dallas R. English
Publisher: Springer
Series: Cancer Prevention-Cancer Causes
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Our series Cancer Prevention - Cancer Control continues to address the causes and prevention of cancer.

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Published December, 2010
By Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Nicholas P. Jewell, Alan C. Kimber and G. Alex Whitmore
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Statistical models and methods for lifetime and other time-to-event data are widely used in many fields, including medicine, the environmental sciences, actuarial science, engineering, economics, management, and the social sciences.

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Published December, 2010
By George Christakos, Dionissios T. Hristopulos and Dionissios Hristopulos
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Spatiotemporal Environmental Health Modelling: A Tractatus Stochasticus provides a holistic, conceptual and quantitative framework for Environmental Health Modelling in space-time.

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