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Statistics in Practice eBook Series

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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

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  • Decision Making in Health and Medicine

    Integrating Evidence and Values

    by M. G. Myriam Hunink, Milton C. Weinstein, Eve Wittenberg, Michael F. Drummond, Joseph S. Pliskin, John B. Wong, Paul P. Glasziou ...
    Decision making in health care involves consideration of a complex set of diagnostic, therapeutic and prognostic uncertainties. Medical therapies have side effects, surgical interventions may lead to complications, and diagnostic tests can produce misleading results. Furthermore, patient values and service costs must be considered. Decisions in clinical and health policy require careful weighing ... Read more

    $132.99 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

    $49.49 USD

  • Epidemiology Matters

    A New Introduction to Methodological Foundations

    by Katherine M. Keyes, Sandro Galea ...
    Epidemiology Matters offers a new approach to understanding and identifying the causes of disease -- and with it, how to prevent disease and improve human health. Utilizing visual explanations and examples, this text provides an accessible, step-by-step introduction to the fundamentals of epidemiologic study, from design to analysis. Across fourteen chapters, Epidemiology Matters teaches the ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Rx for Survival

    Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge

    by Philip Hilts ...
    A New York Times reporter's eye-opening call to arms in the fight against epidemic diseasesWe face a great choice. Philip Hilts, a prizewinning journalist for the New York Times and the Washington Post, argues in this report on global epidemic diseases that the world's leading nations now have the means to win the fight against "the coming plague"—but they must act quickly or face grave ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics – Revised and Updated

    How to treat infections without antibiotics

    by John McKenna ...
    'A long-awaited book that answers many questions.' Jan de Vries Antibiotics were developed in the 1940s. Then, they were hailed as a huge breakthrough in the treatment of bacterial infections. Today, they are the most commonly prescribed drugs worldwide. But massive over-prescription of antibiotics has created its own problems. The advent of antibiotic-resistant organisms – or 'superbugs' – has ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine - E-Book

    Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine - E-Book

    by Marc S. Micozzi ...
    **Selected for Doody's Core Titles® 2024 in Complementary & Integrative Health**Get a solid, global foundation of the therapies and evidence-based clinical applications of CAI. Fundamentals of Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Medicine, 6th Edition is filled with the most up-to-date information on scientific theory and research of holistic medicine from experts around the world. The 6th ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • Biostatistics for Epidemiology and Public Health Using R

    by Bertram K.C. Chan, PhD ...
    Since it first appeared in 1996, the open-source programming language R has become increasingly popular as an environment for statistical analysis and graphical output. In addition to being freely available, R offers several advantages for biostatistics, including strong graphics capabilities, the ability to write customized functions, and its extensibility. This is the first textbook to present ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Dementia

    A Global Approach

    Edited by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy, Martin J. Prince, Jeffrey L. Cummings ...
    Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are, nevertheless, neglected in the published literature. Dementia: A Global Approach, ... Read more

    $132.99 USD

  • Behavioral Economics and Public Health

    Edited by Christina A. Roberto, Ichiro Kawachi ...
    Behavioral economics has potential to offer novel solutions to some of today's most pressing public health problems: How do we persuade people to eat healthy and lose weight? How can health professionals communicate health risks in a way that is heeded? How can food labeling be modified to inform healthy food choices? Behavioral Economics and Public Health is the first book to apply the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Issues in Clinical Epileptology: A View from the Bench

    Edited by Paul S. Buckmaster, Helen E. Scharfman ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is dedicated to Dr. Philip A. Schwartzkroin. The book has a novel format because it is not intended to be a set of reviews. Instead, it is an effort to explore important topics in the epilepsy research field. Because articles are written by leaders in the field who have years of experience and individuals with diverse expertise, articles are likely to have a long-lasting impact and be ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM

    by O. S. Miettinen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    ‘Clinical epidemiology’ is now widely promoted and taught as a ‘basic science’ of Evidence-Based Medicine, of clinical EBM to be specific. This book, however, is mostly about that which Miettinen takes to be the necessary substitute for this now-so-fashionable subject – namely, Theory of Clinical Medicine together with its subordinate Theory of Clinical Research.The leit motif in all of this is ... Read more

    $49.99 USD