Published November, 2010
By Nicholas T. Longford
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Texts in Statistics
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This textbook is for graduate students and research workers in social statistics and related subject areas. The monograph aims to prepare the reader for the career of an independent social statistician and to serve as a reference for methods, ideas for and ways of studying of human populations.

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Published November, 2010
By Thomas T. Yoshikawa, Dean Norman and Thomas Yoshikawa
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Infectious Disease
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In this updated handbook, a panel of well known and highly experienced geriatric physicians and infectious disease experts review the most important common infections affecting the elderly and delineate their well-proven techniques.

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Published November, 2010
By Mukesh Verma
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Population studies and epidemiology facilitate the discovery of genetic and environmental determinants of cancer and the development of new approaches to cancer control and prevention, therefore they play a central role in the creation of health policies.

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Published November, 2010
By Patrick Parfrey, Brendan F.D. Barrett, Brendan Barrett, Patrick S. Parfrey and Brendan J. Barrett
Publisher: Springer (Humana Press Inc.)
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology
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Clinical epidemiology provides the scientific basis for the practice of medicine due to its focus on the diagnosis, prognosis and management of human disease using appropriate research design, measurement and evaluation.

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Published November, 2010
By Luc Duchateau and Paul Janssen
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Readers will find in the pages of this book a treatment of the statistical analysis of clustered survival data. Frailty models provide a powerful tool to analyze clustered survival data. In this book different methods based on the frailty model are described and it is demonstrated how they can be used to analyze clustered survival data.

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Published November, 2010
By Stanley Perlman and Kathryn Holmes
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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This volume is based on the 10th International Nidovirus Symposium: Towards Control of SARS and other Nidovirus Diseases.

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Published November, 2010
By Robert E. Weiss
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Texts in Statistics
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The associated web site contains many longitudinal data sets, examples of computer code, and labs to re-enforce the material. Weiss emphasizes continuous data rather than discrete data, graphical and covariance methods, and generalizations of regression rather than generalizations of analysis of variance.

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Published November, 2010
By Garry Egger, Andrew Binns and Stephan Rossner
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (McGraw-Hill Education / Australia)
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The rise in obesity worldwide has focused attention on lifestyle as a prominent cause of disease. However, obesity is just one manifestation, albeit an obvious one, of lifestyle-related problems. New and adaptive approaches to health management are needed to deal with these complex factors. This book provides these tools to clinicians.

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Published November, 2010
By John David MacCuish and Norah E. MacCuish
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press Inc)
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Presents an introduction to cluster analysis and algorithms in the context of drug discovery clustering applications. This book provides an understanding of the applications in clustering large combinatorial libraries for compound acquisition, HTS results, 3D lead hopping, gene expression for toxicity studies, and protein reaction data.

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Published November, 2010
By Hans-Werner Wahl, Hermann Brenner, Heidrun Mollenkopf, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Christoph Rott and Herrmann Brenner
Publisher: Springer
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