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  • Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection

    Edited by María del Carmen Boado-Penas, Julia Eisenberg, Şule Şahin‬‬‬ ...
    Series series Springer Actuarial
    This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic.Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing ... Read more

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    by Kenneth J. Rothman ...
    Across the last forty years, epidemiology has developed into a vibrant scientific discipline that brings together the social and biological sciences, incorporating everything from statistics to the philosophy of science in its aim to study and track the distribution and determinants of health events. A now-classic text, the second edition of this essential introduction to epidemiology presents the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Statistical Models in Epidemiology

    by David Clayton, Michael Hills ...
    This self-contained account of the statistical basis of epidemiology has been written specifically for those with a basic training in biology, therefore no previous knowledge is assumed and the mathematics is deliberately kept at a manageable level. The authors show how all statistical analysis of data is based on probability models, and once one understands the model, analysis follows easily. In ... Read more

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  • Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

    by Andrew Briggs, Mark Sculpher, Karl Claxton ...
    Series series Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation
    In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for money of various interventions including medical devices, surgical procedures, diagnostic ... Read more

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  • Statistics in Medicine

    by Robert H. Riffenburgh ...
    Statistics in Medicine, Third Edition makes medical statistics easy to understand by students, practicing physicians, and researchers. The book begins with databases from clinical medicine and uses such data to give multiple worked-out illustrations of every method. The text opens with how to plan studies from conception to publication and what to do with your data, and follows with step-by-step ... Read more

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  • Medical Statistics at a Glance Workbook

    by Aviva Petrie, Caroline Sabin ...
    Series series At a Glance
    This comprehensive workbook contains a variety of self-assessment methods that allow readers to test their statistical knowledge, put it into practice, and apply it in a medical context, while also providing guidance when critically appraising published literature. It is designed to support the best-selling third edition of Medical Statistics at a Glance, to which it is fully cross-referenced, but ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Cost–Benefit Analysis and Health Care Evaluations, Second Edition

    by Robert J. Brent ...
    Cost-benefit analysis is the only method of economic evaluation that can effectively indicate whether a health care treatment or intervention is worthwhile. In this thoroughly updated and revised second edition, Robert Brent expands the scope of the field by including the latest concepts and applications throughout all regions of the world. This book attempts to strengthen the link between cost ... Read more

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  • Cluster Randomised Trials

    by Richard J. Hayes, Lawrence H. Moulton ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series
    Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition discusses the design, conduct, and analysis of trials that randomise groups of individuals to different treatments. It explores the advantages of cluster randomisation, with special attention given to evaluating the effects of interventions against infectious diseases. Avoiding unnecessary mathematical detail, the book covers basic concepts underlying the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Medical Statistics

    A Textbook for the Health Sciences

    by Stephen J. Walters, Michael J. Campbell, David Machin ...
    The 5th Edition of this popular introduction to statistics for the medical and health sciences has undergone a significant revision, with several new chapters added and examples refreshed throughout the book. Yet it retains its central philosophy to explain medical statistics with as little technical detail as possible, making it accessible to a wide audience.Helpful multi-choice exercises are ... Read more

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  • Developments in Demographic Forecasting

    Edited by Stefano Mazzuco, Nico Keilman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book presents new developments in the field of demographic forecasting, covering both mortality, fertility and migration. For each component emerging methods to forecast them are presented. Moreover, instruments for forecasting evaluation are provided. Bayesian models, nonparametric models, cohort approaches, elicitation of expert opinion, evaluation of probabilistic forecasts are ... Read more

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  • Statistical Methods for Hospital Monitoring with R

    by Anthony Morton, Kerrie L. Mengersen, Geoffrey Playford, Michael Whitby ...
    Series series Statistics in Practice
    Hospitals monitoring is becoming more complex and is increasing both because staff want their data analysed and because of increasing mandated surveillance. This book provides a suite of functions in R, enabling scientists and data analysts working in infection management and quality improvement departments in hospitals, to analyse their often non-independent data which is frequently in the form ... Read more

    $71.00 USD

  • Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram

    by Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszyńska, James W. Vaupel ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book visualizes mortality dynamics in the Lexis diagram. While the standard approach of plotting death rates is also covered, the focus in this book is on the depiction of rates of mortality improvement over age and time. This rather novel approach offers a more intuitive understanding of the underlying dynamics, enabling readers to better understand whether period- or cohort-effects were ... Read more

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