StatisticalEstimationofEpidemiologicalRisk

作者 Kung-Jong Lui著
出版社 Wiley&Sons
出版时间 2004年3月
ISBN 9780470850718
定价 1375.40

内容简介

Statisticalestimationofindicesformeasuringriskisakeytopicinepidemiology.Agoodestimator,thatisunbiasedandefficient,canhelpinvestigatorssearchforthepossiblecausesofdisease.Gooduseofstatisticalmethodscanenablepublichealthadministratorstoconfidentlyallocatetheirlimitedresourcestotheappropriatemethodsofpreventionandtreatment.StatisticalEstimationofEpidemiologicalRiskpresentsthemost-commonlyusedmeasuresofrisk,andadoptsapracticalapproachusingmanyrealandnumericalexamplestosupportthemethodology.Presentsapracticaloverviewofthekeymeasuresofepidemiologicalrisk.Featurescoverageofvarioussamplingmethods,andpointerstowhereeachshouldbeused.Eachmeasurediscussedissupportedbyanumberofrealandnumericalexamplesthathighlighttheirpracticaluse.Eachchapterisself-contained,allowingthebooktobeusedasareferencesource.Includesanabundanceofexercises,whichgivethereaderaclearerunderstandingofthetheory.Suitableforepidemiologistsandpublichealthprofessionalswithamodeststatisticalbackground.StatisticalEstimationofEpidemiologicalRiskisbothausefulpra

作者简介

KUNG-JONGLUIisaprofessorintheDepartmentofMathematicsandStatisticsatSanDiegoStateUniversity.SinceheobtainedhisPh.D.inbiostatisticsfromUCLAin1982,hehaspublishedmorethan100papersinpeer-reviewedjournals,includingBiometrics,StatisticsinMedicine,BiometricalJournal,Psychometrika,CommunicationsinStatistics:TheoryandMethods,Science,ProceedingsofNationalAcademyofSciences,ControlledClinicalTrials,JournalofOfficialStatistics,IEEETransactionsonReliability,Environmetrics,Test,ComputationalStatisticsandDataAnalysis,AmericanJournalofEpidemiology,AmericanJournalofPublicHealth,etc.HeisaFellowoftheAmericanStatisticalAssociation,alifememberoftheInternationalChineseStatisticalAssociation,andamemberoftheWesternNorthAmericanRegionoftheInternationalBiometricSociety.

丛书

StatisticsinPractice

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