Part1. The utility of the Exposome Paradigm -- Chapter1. Using Exposomics to assess cumulative risks from multiple environmental stressors -- Chapter2. Sequencing the Public Health Exosome -- Chapter3. The US Military and the Exposome -- Chapter4. Framing Fetal and Early Life Exposome within Epidemiology -- Part2. Measuring the internal exposome -- Chapter5. Epigenetics and the exposome -- Chap…
to Survival Analysis -- Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves and the Log-Rank Test -- The Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Characteristics -- Evaluating the Proportional Hazards Assumption -- The Stratified Cox Procedure -- Extension of the Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Time-Dependent Variables -- Parametric Survival Models -- Recurrent Event Survival Analysis -- Competing Risks Survival Ana…
Probability Theory (i): One Random Variable -- Probability Theory (ii): Many Random Variables -- Statistics (i): An Introduction to Statistical Inference -- Stochastic Processes (i): Poisson Processes and Markov Chains -- The Analysis of One DNA Sequence -- The Analysis of Multiple DNA or Protein Sequences -- Stochastic Processes (ii): Random Walks -- Statistics (ii): Classical Estimation Theor…
Sources of Demographic Data -- Sampling Designs and Inference -- Waiting Times and Their Statistical Estimation -- Regression Models for Counts and Survival -- Multistate Models and Cohort-Component Book-Keeping -- Approaches to Forecasting Demographic Rates -- Uncertainty in Demographic Forecasts: Concepts, Issues, and Evidence -- Statistical Propagation of Error in Forecasting -- Errors in Ce…
Exploratory and Descriptive Methods -- Basic Statistical Methods -- Linear Regression -- Predictor Selection -- Logistic Regression -- Survival Analysis -- Repeated Measures and Longitudinal Data Analysis -- Generalized Linear Models -- Complex Surveys -- Summary.This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor regression methods most widely used in biosta…
to Longitudinal Data -- Plots -- Simple Analyses -- Critiques of Simple Analyses -- The Multivariate Normal Linear Model -- Tools and Concepts -- Specifying Covariates -- Modeling the Covariance Matrix -- Random Effects Models -- Residuals and Case Diagnostics -- Discrete Longitudinal Data -- Missing Data -- Analyzing Two Longitudinal Variables -- Further Reading.Longitudinal data are ubiquitou…
Missing data -- Prologue -- Describing incompleteness -- Single imputation and related methods -- Multiple imputation -- Case studies -- Small-area estimation -- Models for small areas -- Using auxiliary information -- Using small-area estimators -- Case studies -- Combining estimators -- Model selection.This book develops methods for two key problems in the analysis of large-scale surveys: dea…
Toward an Interdisciplinary Methodology -- Stochastic Modelling -- Black Death: The Background -- Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge Bases -- Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Epidemic -- Epea Pteroenta.If you want to achieve something, if you want to write a book, paint a picture, be sure the center of your existence is somewhere else and that it’s solidly grounded; only then will you be …
An Overview of Prevention with People Living with HIV -- HIV Diagnosis and Risk Behavior -- HIV Disclosure and Safer Sex -- HIV-Positive Gay and Bisexual Men -- HIV-Positive and HCV-Positive Drug Users -- Young People Living with HIV -- Interventions in Community Settings -- Interventions in Clinical Settings -- International Perspectives."This book is a 'must read' for those interested in the …
HIV Infection and Epidemiology -- Management of Bleedings in Hemophiliacs with Inhibitors -- Orthopedic Problems and Therapy in Hemophiliacs -- Therapy with Protein C -- Pediatric Hemostaseology -- Free Lectures -- Poster.This book contains the contributions to the 34th Hemophilia Symposium, Hamburg 2003. The main topics are HIV infection and epidemiology, management of bleedings in hemophiliac…