Epidemiology & Medical Statistics

This book features various accounts of a cholera outbreak in West London that killed over 500 people in ten days during the late summer of 1854. Wh...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a wo...

The societal consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are severe. They include declining health outcomes from longer illnesses, prolonged sta...

Through real-world case studies, this book shows how to use Stata to estimate a class of flexible parametric survival models. It discusses the mode...

In most modern biomedical research projects, application of high-throughput genomic, proteomic, and transcriptomic experiments has gradually become...

Recent decades have brought advances in statistical theory for missing data, which, combined with advances in computing ability, have allowed imple...

Psychological hedonism - the idea that people tend to act in ways that maximize pleasure and minimize displeasure - has a decidedly poor reputation...

Planning a clinical study is much more than determining the basic study design. Who will you be studying? How do you plan to recruit your study sub...

Whether you are evaluating the effectiveness of a drug, a medical device, a behavioral intervention, a community mobilization, or even a new law, t...

River networks are critically important ecosystems. This interdisciplinary book provides an integrated ecohydrological framework blending laborator...

It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

Biological systems are extremely complex and have emergent properties that cannot be explained or even predicted by studying their individual parts...

Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the...

Cluster analysis finds groups in data automatically. Most methods have been heuristic and leave open such central questions as: how many clusters a...

The primary data driver behind US drug policy is the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. This insider history traces the evolution of the surve...

THE GROUNDBREAKING, FORMATIVE WORK IN SPATIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY -- NOW UPDATED FOR A NEW GENERATION OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN PUBLIC HEALTH In 2003, ...

Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine. Medical Statistics Made Easy has been a perennial bestseller since the first e...

This book teaches foundations of epidemiological design and statistical methods, as well as including topics applicable to new areas of research. S...

Health Science Statistics using R and R Commander has been written for students, researchers and professionals who need a practical guide to the su...

La microbiologia predittiva si occupa dello sviluppo di modelli matematici per la crescita, la sopravvivenza e linattivazione dei microrganismi neg...

Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East wi...