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Forthcoming Statistics for the Biological Sciences Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis

    By Wan Tang, Hua He, Xin Tu

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science

    Developed from the authors’ graduate-level biostatistics course, Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis explains how to perform the statistical analysis of discrete data, including categorical and count outcomes. The authors describe the basic ideas underlying each concept, model, and approach...

    To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  2. Joint Models for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data

    With Applications in R

    By Dimitris Rizopoulos

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    In longitudinal studies it is often of interest to investigate how a marker that is repeatedly measured in time is associated with a time to an event of interest, e.g., prostate cancer studies where longitudinal PSA level measurements are collected in conjunction with the time-to-recurrence. Joint...

    To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  3. Generalized Linear Models and Extensions, Third Edition

    By James W. Hardin, Joseph M. Hilbe

    This book presents a thorough examination of generalized linear model (GLM) estimation methods as well as the derivation of all major GLM families. Examined families include Gaussian, gamma, inverse Gaussian, binomial, Poisson, geometric, and negative binomial. The text also contains various models...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Stata Press

  4. Design and Analysis of Bridging Studies

    Edited by Jen-pei Liu, Shein-Chung Chow, Chin-Fu Hsiao

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    This book provides a comprehensive and unified summary of the growing literature and research activities on regulatory requirements, scientific and practical issues, and statistical methodology pertaining to the design and evaluation of bridging studies, which provide pharmacodynamic or clinical...

    To Be Published July 11th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  5. Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data

    Methods and Applications

    Edited by Ding-Geng Chen, Jianguo Sun, Karl E. Peace

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    This book compiles and presents new developments in the analysis of interval-censored time-to-event data with applications to clinical trials and biomedical research. Data and computer programs are available in order for readers to replicate model development and data analysis presented in each...

    To Be Published July 19th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  6. Medical Biostatistics, Third Edition

    By Abhaya Indrayan

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    Encyclopedic in breadth, yet practical and concise, Medical Biostatistics, Third Edition focuses on the statistical aspects of medicine with a medical perspective, showing the utility of biostatistics as a tool to manage many medical uncertainties. The author concludes "Just as results of medical...

    To Be Published July 29th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  7. Confidence Intervals for Proportions and Related Measures of Effect Size

    By Robert G. Newcombe

    Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series

    Addressed primarily at researchers who have not been trained as statisticians, this book describes how to use appropriate methods to calculate confidence intervals to present research findings. It covers background issues, such as the link between hypothesis tests and confidence intervals and why...

    To Be Published August 12th 2012 by CRC Press

  8. A–Z of Error-Free Research

    By Phillip I. Good

    This book is designed to assist in the transition from slavish student to bold independent researcher. Step-by-step prescriptions, a glossary grouped by related but distinct terms, numerous worked-through examples, and the R code for less-widely available statistical techniques aid in making use of...

    To Be Published August 14th 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  9. Applied Medical Statistics Using SAS

    By Geoff Der, Brian S. Everitt

    Adding topics useful to medical statisticians, this new edition of a popular intermediate-level reference explores the use of SAS for analyzing medical data. A new chapter on visualizing data includes a detailed account of graphics for investigating data and smoothing techniques. The book also...

    To Be Published September 3rd 2012 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  10. A Handbook of Applied Statistics in Pharmacology

    By Katsumi Kobayashi, K. Sadasivan Pillai

    Statistics plays an important role in pharmacology and related subjects such as toxicology and drug discovery and development. Improper statistical tool selection to analyze the data obtained from studies conducted in these subjects may result in wrongful interpretation of the performance- or...

    To Be Published September 14th 2012 by Science Publishers