Bioenvironmental and Public Health Statistics

Sen P., Rao C. (eds.)0444829008, 9780444829009

Handbook of Statistics.Vol.18In this volume of the Handbook of Statistics with the primary focus on bioenvironmental and public health statistics, a rather off-beat approach has been taken, wherein biostatistical methods that are relevant to the dissemination of bioenvironmental and public health investigations have been thoroughly emphasised, and placed side by side with the fruitful applications. One aspect of statistical methodology that merits special appraisal is the extent of appropriateness of some standard statistical tools in such non-standard applications, and much of the deliberation in this volume is geared to alternative non-standard and application oriented methodology that have been developed to suit better bioenvironmental and public health studies.

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Table of contents :
Handbook of Statistics 18: Bioenvironmental and Public Health Statistics……Page 1
Table of contents……Page 3
Preface……Page 15
Contributors……Page 18
1. Bioenvironment and Public Health: Statistical Perspectives……Page 22
2. Some Examples of Random Process Environmental Data Analysis……Page 49
3. Modeling Infectious Diseases – AIDS……Page 73
4. On Some Multiplicity Problems and Multiple Comparison Procedures in Biostatistics……Page 90
5. Analysis of Longitudinal Data……Page 129
6. Regression Models for Survival Data……Page 175
7. Generalized Linear Models for Independent and Dependent Responses……Page 206
8. Hierarchical and Empirical Bayes Methods for Environmental Risk Assessment……Page 236
9. Non-parametrics in Bioenvironmental and Public Health Statistics……Page 259
10. Estimation and Comparison of Growth and Dose-Response Curves in the Presence of Purposeful Censoring……Page 337
11. Spatial Statistical Methods for Environmental Epidemiology……Page 367
12. Evaluating Diagnostic Tests in Public Health……Page 407
13. Statistical Issues in Inhalation Toxicology……Page 433
14. Quantitative Potency Estimation to Measure Risk with Bio-environmental Hazards……Page 451
15. The Analysis of Case-Control Data: Epidemiologic Studies of Familial Aggregation……Page 474
16. Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Techniques: Applications Involving Epidemiologic Survey Data……Page 492
17. Measurement Error Models for Environmental and Occupational Health Applications……Page 510
18. Statistical Perspectives in Clinical Epidemiology……Page 528
19. ANOVA and ANOCOVA for Two-Period Crossover Trial Data: New vs. Standard……Page 553
20. Statistical Methods for Crossover Designs in Bioenvironmental and Public Health Studies……Page 577
21. Statistical Models for Human Reproduction……Page 621
22. Statistical Methods For Reproductive Risk Assessment……Page 652
23. Selection Biases of Samples and their Resolutions……Page 675
24. Genomic Sequences and Quasi-Multivariate CATANOVA……Page 713
25. Statistical Methods for Multivariate Failure Time Data and Competing Risks……Page 747
26. Bounds on Joint Survival Probabilities with Positively Dependent Competing Risks……Page 780
27. Modeling Multivariate Failure Time Data……Page 799
28. The Cost-Effectiveness Ratio in the Analysis of Health Care Programs……Page 835
29. Quality-of-Life: Statistical Validation and Analysis An Example from a Clinical Trial……Page 864
30. Carcinogenic Potency: Statistical Perspectives……Page 885
31. Statistical Applications in Cardiovascular Disease……Page 902
32. Medical Informatics and Health Care Systems: Biostatistical and Epidemiologic Perspectives……Page 927
33. Methods of Establishing In Vitro-In Vivo Relationships for Modified Release Drug Products……Page 959
34. Statistics in Psychiatric Research……Page 985
35. Bridging the Biostatistics-Epidemiology Gap……Page 1007
36. Biodiversity – Measurement and Analysis……Page 1036
Subject index……Page 1052
Handbook of Statistics: Contents of Previous Volumes……Page 1062