1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996418278303316

Autore

Held Leonhard

Titolo

Likelihood and Bayesian Inference [[electronic resource] ] : With Applications in Biology and Medicine / / by Leonhard Held, Daniel Sabanés Bové

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-662-60792-1

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 402 p. 84 illus.)

Collana

Statistics for Biology and Health, , 1431-8776

Disciplina

570.15195

Soggetti

Statistics 

Biostatistics

Ecology 

Biomathematics

Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences

Statistical Theory and Methods

Bayesian Inference

Theoretical Ecology/Statistics

Genetics and Population Dynamics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNICASTO00803676

Titolo

4: Antologia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino, : UTET, ©1999

ISBN

8802055246

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; 25 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963123103321

Autore

Holmes Frederic Lawrence

Titolo

Meselson, Stahl, and the replication of DNA : a history of "the most beautiful experiment in biology" / / Frederic Lawrence Holmes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT, : Yale University Press, 2001

ISBN

9786611730451

9781281730459

1281730459

9780300129663

0300129661

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 503 p.) ) : ill

Disciplina

572.8/6

Soggetti

DNA replication - Experiments - History

Molecular biology - Experiments - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-496) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Chapter One The Replication Problem 11 -- Chapter Two Meselson and Stahl 49 -- Chapter Three Twists and Turs 75 -- Chapter Four Crossing Fields: Chemical Bonds to Biological Mutants 116 -- Chapter Five Dense Solutions 157 -- Chapter Six The Big Machine 183 -- Chapter Seven Working at High Speed 215 -- Chapter Eight The Unseen Band 272 -- Chapter Nine One Discovery, Three Stories 303 -- Chapter Ten An Extremely Beautiful Experiment 319 -- Chapter Eleven Centrifugal Forces 352 -- Chapter Twelve The Subunits of Semiconservative Replication 388 -- Chapter Thirteen Images of an Experiment 412 -- Chapter Fourteen Afterword 435.

Sommario/riassunto

In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and Stahl's quest.This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led



to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research--its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, as well as its frustrations, unexpected diversions away from original plans, and chronic uncertainty. Holmes uses research logs, experimental films, correspondence, and interviews with the participants to record the history of Meselson and Stahl's research, from their first thinking about the problem through the publication of their dramatic results. Holmes also reviews the scientific community's reception of the experiment, the experiment's influence on later investigations, and the reasons for its reputation as an exceptionally beautiful experiment.