Modern Methods for Epidemiology

By Yu-kang Tu and Darren C. Greenwood

Book Overview

Preface.-1 Confounding and Causal path diagrams.-2 Statistical modelling of partially observed data using multiple imputation: principles and practice.-3 Measurement errors in epidemiology.-4 Selection bias in epidemiologic studies.-5 Multilevel modelling.-6 Modelling data that exhibit an excess number of zeros: zero-inflated models and generic mixture models.-7 Multilevel latent class modelling.-8 Bayesian bivariate disease mapping.-9 A multivariate random frailty effects model for multiple spatially dependent survival data.-10 Meta-analysis of observational studies.-11 Directed acyclic graphs and structural equation modelling.-12 Latent growth curve models.-13 Growth mixture modelling for life course epidemiology.-14 G-estimations.-15 Generalised additive models.-16 Regression and classification trees.-17 Statistical interactions and gene-environment joint effects. Index.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9400794061
• ISBN13: 9789400794061
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"