Published April, 2008
By Yichen Lu, Max Essex and Bryan Roberts
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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With many Asian countries experiencing increasing economic growth and globalization, infectious diseases that were once contained in certain pockets of the continent now proliferate throughout its geographical area.

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Published April, 2008
By Tessa Pollard and Tessa M. Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends the evolutionary perspective, providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

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Published April, 2008
By Tessa Pollard and Tessa M. Pollard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
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Written with an anthropological perspective and aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduates taking courses in the ecology and evolution of disease, Tessa Pollard applies and extends the evolutionary perspective, providing a new synthesis of current understandings of evolutionary processes, and of the biology and epidemiology of disease.

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Published April, 2008
By Carolyn A. Chew-Graham, Robert Baldwin and Alistair Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Appealing to health and social care professionals and students, this book discusses the epidemiology, presentation and diagnosis of depression in older people. Taking the reader through a series of case studies of increasing complexity, each case has commentaries from a primary care clinician and a health or social care professional.

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Published March, 2008
By Frank Hu
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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During the past twenty years there has been a dramatic increase in obesity in the United States. An estimated 30% of adults in the US are obese; in 1980, only 15% were. This book offers practical information about the methodology of epidemiologic studies of obesity, suitable for students and researchers in epidemiology, public health and nutrition.

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Published March, 2008
By Jurgen Bortz, Klaus Boehnke, Gustav A. Lienert and J Rgen Bortz
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
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Vertiefung der "Kurzgefassten Statistik" von Jurgen Bortz Auch ohne mathematische Vorkenntnisse verstandlich Mit 47 Signifikanztafeln

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Published March, 2008
By Joseph Abramson, Z. H. Abramson and JH Abramson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd (John Wiley & Sons Inc)
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A guide to the planning and performance of investigations concerned with health and disease and with health care. It offers researchers help in choosing a topic and to think about shaping objectives and ideas and to link these with the appropriate choice of method.

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Published March, 2008
By Jurgen Bortz and Gustav A. Lienert
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Springer-Lehrbuch
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Das Problem: Die kleine Stichprobe In der Forschungspraxis der Psychologie, der Medizin und der Sozialwissenschaften hat es der Anwender statistischer Verfahren uberwiegend mit kleinen Stichproben zu tun.

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Published March, 2008
By Steve Selvin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: Practical Guides to Biostatistics and Epidemiology
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This practical guide for readers with a minimal background in statistics shows how to analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the help of modern computer systems. The author introduces key methods of survival analysis that are also central to statistical analysis in general.

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Published February, 2008
By Rodolfo Saracci, Emily White and Bruce K Armstrong
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Accurate measurement of exposure to putative causes of disease is essential to the validity of epidemiologic research. This is a new edition of a unique book outlining the principles and techniques of exposure measurement.

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