M. Ataharul Islam – författare

This book presents a broad range of statistical techniques to address emerging needs in the field of repeated measures. It also provides a comprehensive overview of extensions of generalized linear models for the bivariate exponential family of distributions, which represent a new development in analysing repeated measures data. The demand for statistical models for correlated outcomes has grown rapidly recently, mainly due to presence of two types of underlying associations: associations between outcomes, and associations between explanatory variables and outcomes.

The book systematically addresses key problems arising in the modelling of repeated measures data, bearing in mind those factors that play a major role in estimating the underlying relationships between covariates and outcome variables for correlated outcome data. In addition, it presents new approaches to addressing current challenges in the field of repeated measures and models based on conditional and joint probabilities. Markov models of first and higher orders are used for conditional models in addition to conditional probabilities as a function of covariates. Similarly, joint models are developed using both marginal-conditional probabilities as well as joint probabilities as a function of covariates. 

This book offers a comprehensive guide to essential techniques and methods in biostatistics, addressing the underlying concepts to aid in comprehension. The use of biostatistics techniques has increased manifold in the recent past, due to their suitability for applications in a wide range of problems in various fields. This book helps learners grasp the materials in detail, equipping them to use biostatistics techniques independently and confidently. The book starts with a summary of background materials, followed by methods and techniques. As such, with only minimum guidance from teachers, this book can provide materials for self-learning of biostatistics techniques with a deeper level of understanding.  The first two chapters focus on fundamental concepts, sources of data, data types, organization of data, and descriptive statistics, followed by the basic probability concepts, distributions and sampling distributions needed in order to combine descriptive statistics with inferential techniques. Estimation and tests of hypotheses are illustrated in two separate chapters. Important measures of association, linear regression, analysis of variance and logistic regression, and proportional hazards models are then presented systematically, ensuring that the book covers the topics most essential to students and users of biostatistics in connection with a wide range of applications in various fields. The book has been carefully structured, and the content is presented in a sequence covering the essential background in a highly systematic manner, supporting the learning process by presenting theory and applications that complement one another.

This book presents and standardizes statistical models and methods that can be directly applied to both reliability and survival analysis. These two types of analysis are widely used in many fields, including engineering, management, medicine, actuarial science, the environmental sciences, and the life sciences. Though there are a number of books on reliability analysis and a handful on survival analysis, there are virtually no books on both topics and their overlapping concepts. Offering an essential textbook, this book will benefit students, researchers, and practitioners in reliability and survival analysis, reliability engineering, biostatistics, and the biomedical sciences.

This book presents a wide range of topics to address the needs of several groups of users of rapidly growing methods of generalized linear models. Since the introduction of the idea of generalized linear models (GLM) in early seventies, during the past four decades the modelling of statistical data have experienced a major transformation from linear models based on normality assumption to a more flexible unified approach of generalized linear models. The number of readers and users of generalized linear models have increased manifold. In addition, the use of generalized linear models has expanded in many new fields of applications where statistical models are being employed at an increasing rate. It is important to note here that the learners and users of GLM have a widely varied background in different disciplines. Considering these pressing needs, this book focuses on: (i) upper undergraduate and graduate level students in need of a thorough understanding about the basic concepts of generalized linear models along with appropriate applications; (ii) researchers and users in need of advanced generalized linear models for analysing bivariate or multivariate data stemming from longitudinal or repeated measures data; and (iii) new challenges to analyse big data where the traditional techniques fail to provide any reasonable modelling strategy. In other words, this book starts with a thorough background of the generalized linear models for the new learners, then provides multivariate extensions to advanced level techniques for researchers and users in various disciplines, and finally some innovative modelling strategies are introduced using generalized linear models in the emerging field of big data analytics. It provides materials for new learners, for users/researchers who are in need of more advanced techniques and also strategies for employing linear models in big data analytics. Hence, techniques of generalized linear models will be presented in the proposed book covering the needs of new learners, users of advanced techniques, researchers in need of statistical modelling of any data type and users of big data analytics wanting to increase predictive accuracy of classification and regression tree techniques.