Likelihood and Bayesian Inference: With Applications in Biology and Medicine / Edition 2

by Leonhard Held, Daniel Sabanés Bové

Overview

This richly illustrated textbook covers modern statistical methods with applications in medicine, epidemiology and biology. Firstly, it discusses the importance of statistical models in applied quantitative research and the central role of the likelihood function, describing likelihood-based inference from a frequentist viewpoint, and exploring the properties of the maximum likelihood estimate, the score function, the likelihood ratio and the Wald statistic. In the second part of the book, likelihood is combined with prior information to perform Bayesian inference. Topics include Bayesian updating, conjugate and reference priors, Bayesian point and interval estimates, Bayesian asymptotics and empirical Bayes methods. It includes a separate chapter on modern numerical techniques for Bayesian inference, and also addresses advanced topics, such as model choice and prediction from frequentist and Bayesian perspectives. This revised edition of the book “Applied Statistical Inference” has been expanded to include new material on Markov models for time series analysis. It also features a comprehensive appendix covering the prerequisites in probability theory, matrix algebra, mathematical calculus, and numerical analysis, and each chapter is complemented by exercises. The text is primarily intended for graduate statistics and biostatistics students with an interest in applications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783662607916
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/01/2020
Series:	Statistics for Biology and Health
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2020
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Leonhard Held is a Full Professor of Biostatistics, Director of the Master’s Program in Biostatistics and Chair of the Center for Reproducible Science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has published several books and numerous articles on statistical methodology, applied statistics and biomedical research and teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses in Biostatistics and Medical Statistics.

Daniel Sabanés Bové completed his PhD in Statistics at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Leonhard Held. He started his career as a biostatistician in oncology drug development at Hoffmann-La Roche in 2013, and has been a data scientist at Google since 2018.

Editorial Reviews

If you need a guidebook to follow when you need to refresh past statistical concepts from your memory, or even learn the rationale behind a method you are not familiar with, this user-friendly book will give you a perfect starting point.” (Pablo Hernández-Alonso, ISCB News, iscb.info, June, 2022)

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