Published June, 2020
By Lyle D. Broemeling
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Written by a biostatistics expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, this book is the first to introduce epidemiology from a Bayesian perspective. It shows epidemiologists how Bayesian models and techniques are useful in studying the association between disease and exposure to risk factors. With many examples and end-of-chapter exerc

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Published June, 2020
By Robert O'Brien
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This book presents an introduction to the problems and strategies for modeling age, period, and cohort (APC) effects for aggregate-level data. These strategies include constrained estimation, the use of age and/or period and/or cohort characteristics, estimable functions, variance decomposition, and a new technique called the s-constraint approa

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Published June, 2020
By David L. Blazes and Sheri H. Lewis
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This book will show you how new reporting requirements, combined with new technologies, big data sources, and sophisticated analytic approaches now enable the public health community to identify potential outbreaks and initiate a response earlier than at any other time in history. The book covers various topics including disease surveillance sys

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Published June, 2020
By Carlos F. Amabile-Cuevas
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This book will review the available evidence and hypotheses on where antibiotic resistance is coming from and for how long has been there. It will discuss involved maintenance pressures, resistance spread, traits and laboratory and in-silico strategies to further investigate antibiotic resistance.

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Published June, 2020
By Chul Ahn, Moonseoung Heo and Song Zhang
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This book explains how to determine sample size for studies with correlated outcomes, which are widely implemented in medical, epidemiological, and behavioral studies. For clustered studies, the authors provide sample size formulas that account for variable cluster sizes and within-cluster correlation. For longitudinal studies, they present samp

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Published June, 2020
By Michael G. Stabin
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Written by one of the world's leading experts, this text describes in detail the use of internal dose calculations in nuclear medicine. While radiation therapy with external sources of radiation always employs calculations of dose, this is not routinely done in nuclear medicine therapy. This book discusses how to do dose calculations for diagnos

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Published June, 2020
By Arno J. Mundt, Todd Pawlicki, Peter Dunscombe and Pierre Scalliet
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The first text to focus solely on quality and safety in radiotherapy, this work encompasses not only traditional technically oriented quality assurance activities, but also general approaches regarding quality and safety. It includes contributions from experts both inside and outside the field to discuss both the processes and the people deliver

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Published June, 2020
By Joo-Hiuk Son
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This book focuses on biomedical applications of terahertz (THz) waves. THz waves offer advantages due to their low energy (greater safety), long wavelength (less scattering), and sensitivity to water molecules. The book explores the use of THz spectroscopy in elucidating biological behaviors as well as the development of THz wave medical techniq

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Published June, 2020
By Sunit K. Singh
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Using a multidisciplinary approach, this book is set at the level between the definitive reference work and an essential clinical manual. Exploring recent advances in human respiratory viral research, the text builds on the basic sciences of epidemiology, virology, and immunology to cover clinical diagnosis, mechanism of pathogenes

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Published June, 2020
By Mohamed M. Shoukri
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Exploring applications in medical research and clinical epidemiology, this text continues to cover important issues related to the design and analysis of reliability and agreement studies. This edition contains a new chapter that describes various models for methods comparison studies as well as a new chapter on the analysis of reproducibility u

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