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This book is aimed to compile typical fundamental to advanced statistical methods to be used for health data sciences. This book promotes the applications to health and health-related data. The data and computing programs will be available to facilitate readers' learning experience.
List of contents
1. Sampling and Data Collection
2. Measures of Tendency, Spread, Relative Standing, Association, Belief
3. Statistical Modeling of Mean of Continuous and Mean of Binary Outcomes
4. Modeling of Continuous and Binary Outcomes with Factors: One-way and Two-way ANOVA Models
5. Statistical Modeling of Continuous Outcomes with Continuous Explanatory Factors Linear Regression Models 6. Modeling Continuous Responses with Categorical and Continuous Covariates: One-Way Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA)
7. Statistical Modeling of Binary Outcome with One or More Covariates: Standard Logistic Regression Model
8. Generalized Linear Models
9. Modeling Repeated Continuous Observations using GEE
10. Modeling for Correlated Continuous Responses with Random-Effects
11. Modeling Correlated Binary Outcomes through Hierarchical Logistic Regression Models
About the author
Jeffrey Wilson, Ph.D. Professor in Biostatistics and Associate Dean of Research Department of Economics W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, USA.
Ding-Geng Chen, Ph.D. Professor and Executive Director in Biostatistics College of Health Solutions Arizona State University, USA.
Dr. Karl E. Peace is the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar (GCCDCS), Senior Research Scientist and Professor of Biostatistics in the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health (JPHCOPH) at Georgia Southern University (GSU). He was responsible for establishing the Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health - the first college of public health in the University System of GA (USG). He is the architect of the MPH in Biostatistics - the first-degree program in Biostatistics in the USG and Founding Director of the Karl E. Peace Center for Biostatistics in the JPHCOPH. Dr. Peace holds the Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the Medical College of Virginia, the M.S. in Mathematics from Clemson University, the B.S. in Chemistry from Georgia Southern College, and a Health Science Certificate from Vanderbilt University.
Summary
This book is aimed to compile typical fundamental to advanced statistical methods to be used for health data sciences. This book promotes the applications to health and health-related data. The data and computing programs will be available to facilitate readers’ learning experience.
