Published July, 2010
By David G. Kleinbaum, Mitchell Klein and Mitchel Klein
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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The three new chapters are as follows: Chapter 8: Additional Modeling Strategy Issues Chapter 9: Assessing Goodness of Fit for Logistic Regression Chapter 10: Assessing Discriminatory Performance of a Binary Logistic Model: ROC Curves In adding these three chapters, we have moved Chaps.

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Published June, 2010
By Tom Trauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book analyses and assesses the techniques of outcome measurement in different settings and looks at the diverse ways in which outcome measurement can be implemented. This is an essential resource for all members of the mental health clinical team as well as those responsible for establishing and managing services.

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Published June, 2010
By Emma McIntosh, Philip Clarke, Emma Frew, Jordan Louviere, Emma J. Frew and Jordan J. Louviere
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
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This book provides a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) of a health intervention, with a particular focus on the use of stated preference survey methods to identify consumer preference data and the use of recent developments in cost-effectiveness analysis within a CBA framework.

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Published June, 2010
By S. S. Abdool Karim, Q. Abdool Karim and S.S. Abdool Karim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This second edition of the definitive text covers all aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa, from basic science to medicine, sociology, economics and politics. Written by a highly respected team of South African HIV/AIDS experts, it provides a thoroughly researched account of the epidemic in the region.

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Published May, 2010
By Jorn Olsen, Jørn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray and Anders Ekbom
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
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Published May, 2010
By Allen J. Wilcox
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Fertility and Pregnancy: An Epidemiologic Perspective, is a lively overview of human reproduction: how it works, and what causes it to go wrong. Weaving together history, biology, obstetrics, pediatrics, demography, infectious diseases, molecular genetics, and evolutionary biology, Allen Wilcox brings a fresh coherence to the epidemiologic study of reproduction and pregnancy.

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Published April, 2010
By Mitchell H. Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book teaches researchers, whether expert or novice, how to evaluate health interventions. Written in plain language with supplementary tips and definitions to guide the reader, it simplifies the process of analyzing data. It will guide healthcare workers and policy makers in making the correct selection of study design.

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Published April, 2010
By Mitchell H. Katz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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This book teaches researchers, whether expert or novice, how to evaluate health interventions. Written in plain language with supplementary tips and definitions to guide the reader, it simplifies the process of analyzing data. It will guide healthcare workers and policy makers in making the correct selection of study design.

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Published April, 2010
By Frank Emmert-Streib, Matthias Dehmer and F Emmert-Streib
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH)
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- Rapidly increasing audience due to the fast proliferation of high-through put methods in clinical and biomedical research. - Nice complementation for the Wiley book cluster on Bioinformatics - Of interest for academia and industry alike - High profile authors from the mathematical community.

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Published April, 2010
By Lorna Weir and Eric Mykhalovskiy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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The invention of online techniques such as early warning outbreak detection has dramatically changed the action capacity and social organization of global infectious disease control. This book, one of the first to examine these transformations, is a stunning addition to the fields of global health, global news, surveillance, and globalization.

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