Methods and Applications of Statistics in the Life and Health Sciences

N. Balakrishnan, PhD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. Dr. Balakrishnan is coeditor of Wiley's Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition and also serves as Editor in Chief of Communications in Statistics. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Dr. Balakrishnan is the coauthor of Precedence-Type Tests and Applications and A Primer on Statistical Distributions, both published by Wiley.

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• Preface vContributors vii1 Aalen’s Additive Risk Model 12 Aggregation 93 AIDS Stochastic Models 154 All-or-None Compliance 375 Ascertainment Sampling 436 Assessment Bias 477 Bioavailability and Bioequivalence 538 Cancer Stochastic Models 619 Centralized Genomic Control: A Simple Approach Correcting for Population Structures in Case-Control Association Studies 8110 Change Point Methods in Genetics 9511 Classical Biostatistics 11712 Clinical Trials-II 13113 Cluster Randomization 14314 Cohort Analysis 15715 Comparisons with a Control 16716 Competing Risks 17917 Countermatched Sampling 18918 Counting Processes 19319 Cox’s Proportional Hazards Model 20320 Crossover Trials 21521 Design and Analysis for Repeated Measurements 22522 DNA Fingerprinting 25923 Epidemics 26924 Epidemiological Statistics I 27925 Epidemiological Statistics II 29926 Event History Analysis 31927 FDA Statistical Programs: An Overview 32928 FDA Statistical Programs: Human Drugs 33529 Follow-Up 34330 Frailty Models 34931 Framingham: An Evolving Longitudinal Study 35332 Genetic Linkage 35933 Group-Sequential Methods in Biomedical Research 36534 Group-Sequential Tests 37735 Grouped Data in Survival Analysis 39136 Image Processing 39737 Image Restoration and Reconstruction 41538 Imputation and Multiple Imputation 42539 Incomplete Data 44140 Interval Censoring 45141 Interrater Agreement 46142 Kaplan-Meier Estimator I 48143 Kaplan-Meier Estimator II 48944 Landmark Data 50145 Longitudinal Data Analysis 51546 Meta-Analysis 53147 Missing Data: Sensitivity Analysis 53548 Multiple Testing in Clinical Trials 54749 Mutation Processes 55550 Nested Case-Control Sampling 55951 Observational Studies 56752 One- and Two-Armed Bandit Problems 57353 Opthalmology 57954 Panel Count Data 58555 Planning and Analysis of Group-Randomized Trials 60556 Predicting Preclinical Disease Using the Mixed-Effects Regression Model 61357 Predicting Random Effects in Group-Randomized Trials 63558 Probabilistic and Statistical Models for Conception 64759 Probit Analysis 66960 Prospective Studies 67761 Quality Assessment for Clinical Trials 68362 Repeated Measurements 69563 Reproduction Rates 70964 Retrospective Studies 71365 Sample Size Determination for Clinical Trials 71966 Scan Statistics 73367 Semiparametric Analysis of Competing-Risk Data 74968 Size and Shape Analysis 76969 Stability Study Designs 78170 Statistical Analysis of DNA Microarray Data 79571 Statistical Genetics 80172 Statistical Methods in Bioassay 80773 Statistical Modeling of Human Fecundity 81574 Statistical Quality of Life 83975 Statistics at CDC 86576 Statistics in Dentistry 87177 Statistics in Evolutionary Genetics 87378 Statistics in Forensic Science 87979 Statistics in Human Genetics I 88780 Statistics in Human Genetics II 89381 Statistics in Medical Diagnosis 90982 Statistics in Medicine 91583 Statistics in the Pharmaceutical Industry 92784 Statistics in Spatial Epidemiology 93385 Stochastic Compartment Models 93986 Surrogate Markers 94587 Survival Analysis 953Index 967