Innovative Statistical Methods for Public Health Data

The book brings together experts working in public health and multi-disciplinary areas to present recent issues in statistical methodological development and their applications. This timely book will impact model development and data analyses of public health research across a wide spectrum of analy...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chen, Ding-Geng (Din). (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wilson, Jeffrey. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Edition:1st ed. 2015.
Series:ICSA Book Series in Statistics,
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18536-1
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Modelling Clustered Data
  • Methods for Analyzing Secondary Outcomes in Public Health Case Control Studies
  • Controlling for Population Density Using Clustering and Data Weighting Techniques When Examining Social Health and Welfare Problems
  • On the Inference of Partially Correlated Data with Applications to Public Health Issues
  • Modeling Time-Dependent Covariates in Longitudinal Data Analyses
  • Solving Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems with Moore-Penrose Generalized Inverse Matrix Method to Extract Longitudinal Characteristics from Cross-Sectional Survey Data
  • Part II: Modelling Incomplete or Missing Data
  • On the Effects of Structural Zeros in Regression Models
  • Modeling Based on Progressively Type-I Interval Censored Sample
  • Techniques for Analyzing Incomplete Data in Public Health Research
  • A Continuous Latent Factor Model for Non-ignorable Missing Data
  • Part III: Healthcare Research Models
  • Health Surveillance
  • Standardization and Decomposition Analysis: A Useful Analytical Method for Outcome Difference, Inequality and Disparity Studies
  • Cusp Catastrophe Modeling in Medical and Health Research
  • On Ranked Set Sampling Variation and its Applications to Public Health Research
  • Weighted Multiple Testing Correction for Correlated Endpoints in Survival Data
  • Meta-analytic Methods for Public Health Research.