Statistical Methods for Biostatistics and Related Fields

by Wolfgang Härdle (Editor), Yuichi Mori (Editor), Philippe Vieu (Editor)

Overview

This book covers a wide range of recent statistical methods that are of interest to scientists in biostatistics as well as in other related fields such as chemometrics, environmetrics and geophysics. The contributed papers, from internationally recognized researchers, present various statistical methodologies together with a selected scope of their main mathematical properties and their application in a real case study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642069215
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/14/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Pages:	370
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Biostatistics.- Discriminant Analysis Based on Continuous and Discrete Variables.- Longitudinal Data Analysis with Linear Regression.- A Kernel Method Used for the Analysis of Replicated Micro-array Experiments.- Kernel Estimates of Hazard Functions for Biomedical Data Sets.- Partially Linear Models.- Analysis of Contingency Tables.- Identifying Coexpressed Genes.- Bootstrap Methods for Testing Interactions in GAMs.- Survival Trees.- A Semiparametric Approach to Estimate Reference Curves for Biophysical Properties of the Skin.- Survival Analysis.- Related Sciences.- Ozone Pollution Forecasting Using Conditional Mean and Conditional Quantiles with Functional Covariates.- Nonparametric Functional Methods: New Tools for Chemometric Analysis.- Variable Selection in Principal Component Analysis.- Spatial Statistics.- Functional Data Analysis.- Analysis of Failure Time with Microearthquakes Applications.- Polychotomous Regression: Application to Landcover Prediction.- The Application of Fuzzy Clustering to Satellite Images Data.