Essential medical statistics [[electronic resource] /] / Betty R. Kirkwood, Jonathan A.C. Sterne |
Autore | Kirkwood Betty R |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (513 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SterneJonathan A. C |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine - Research - Statistical methods
Medical statistics |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-81780-9
9786612817809 1-4443-9284-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Using this book -- Defining the data -- Displaying the data -- Means, standard deviations and standard errors -- The normal distribution -- Confidence interval for a mean -- Comparison of two means: confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and P-values -- Using P-values and confidence intervals to interpret the results of statistical analyses -- Comparison of means from several groups: analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Goodness of fit and regression diagnostics -- Transformations -- Probability, risks and odds (of disease) -- Proportions and the binomial distribution -- Comparing two proportions -- Chi-squared tests for 2 x 2 and larger contingency tables -- Controlling for confounding: stratification -- Logistic regression: comparing two or more exposure groups -- Logistic regression: controlling for confounding and other extensions -- Matched studies -- Longitudinal studies, rates and the Poisson distribution -- Comparing rates -- Poisson regression -- Standardization -- Survival analysis: displaying and comparing survival patterns -- Regressional analysis of survival data -- Likelihood -- Regression modelling -- Relaxing model assumptions -- Analysis of clustered data -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics -- Linking analysis to study design: summary of methods -- Calculation of required sample size -- Measurement error: assessment and implications -- Measures of association and impact -- Strategies for analysis -- Appendix: statistical tables. |
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Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 | ||
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Essential medical statistics [[electronic resource] /] / Betty R. Kirkwood, Jonathan A.C. Sterne |
Autore | Kirkwood Betty R |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 501 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SterneJonathan A. C |
Soggetto topico |
Medical statistics
Medicine - Research - Statistical methods |
ISBN |
1-4443-9284-0
1-282-81780-9 9786612817809 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Using this book -- Defining the data -- Displaying the data -- Means, standard deviations and standard errors -- The normal distribution -- Confidence interval for a mean -- Comparison of two means: confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and P-values -- Using P-values and confidence intervals to interpret the results of statistical analyses -- Comparison of means from several groups: analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Goodness of fit and regression diagnostics -- Transformations -- Probability, risks and odds (of disease) -- Proportions and the binomial distribution -- Comparing two proportions -- Chi-squared tests for 2 x 2 and larger contingency tables -- Controlling for confounding: stratification -- Logistic regression: comparing two or more exposure groups -- Logistic regression: controlling for confounding and other extensions -- Matched studies -- Longitudinal studies, rates and the Poisson distribution -- Comparing rates -- Poisson regression -- Standardization -- Survival analysis: displaying and comparing survival patterns -- Regressional analysis of survival data -- Likelihood -- Regression modelling -- Relaxing model assumptions -- Analysis of clustered data -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics -- Linking analysis to study design: summary of methods -- Calculation of required sample size -- Measurement error: assessment and implications -- Measures of association and impact -- Strategies for analysis -- Appendix: statistical tables. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795973803321 |
Kirkwood Betty R | ||
Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Essential medical statistics / / Betty R. Kirkwood, Jonathan A.C. Sterne |
Autore | Kirkwood Betty R |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 501 p. : ill |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Altri autori (Persone) | SterneJonathan A. C |
Soggetto topico |
Medical statistics
Medicine - Research - Statistical methods |
ISBN |
1-4443-9284-0
1-282-81780-9 9786612817809 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Using this book -- Defining the data -- Displaying the data -- Means, standard deviations and standard errors -- The normal distribution -- Confidence interval for a mean -- Comparison of two means: confidence intervals, hypothesis tests and P-values -- Using P-values and confidence intervals to interpret the results of statistical analyses -- Comparison of means from several groups: analysis of variance -- Linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Goodness of fit and regression diagnostics -- Transformations -- Probability, risks and odds (of disease) -- Proportions and the binomial distribution -- Comparing two proportions -- Chi-squared tests for 2 x 2 and larger contingency tables -- Controlling for confounding: stratification -- Logistic regression: comparing two or more exposure groups -- Logistic regression: controlling for confounding and other extensions -- Matched studies -- Longitudinal studies, rates and the Poisson distribution -- Comparing rates -- Poisson regression -- Standardization -- Survival analysis: displaying and comparing survival patterns -- Regressional analysis of survival data -- Likelihood -- Regression modelling -- Relaxing model assumptions -- Analysis of clustered data -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Bayesian statistics -- Linking analysis to study design: summary of methods -- Calculation of required sample size -- Measurement error: assessment and implications -- Measures of association and impact -- Strategies for analysis -- Appendix: statistical tables. |
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Kirkwood Betty R | ||
Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
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Medical Data Analysis [[electronic resource] ] : 4th International Symposium, ISMDA 2003, Berlin, Germany, October 9-10, 2003, Proceedings / / edited by Petra Perner, Rüdiger Brause, Hermann-Georg Holzhütter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2003.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VIII, 132 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine
Database management Health informatics Information storage and retrieval Artificial intelligence Optical data processing Biomedicine, general Database Management Health Informatics Information Storage and Retrieval Artificial Intelligence Image Processing and Computer Vision |
ISBN | 3-540-39619-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Medical Models and Learning -- Possibility-Probability Relation in Medical Models -- How Exactly Do We Know Inheritance Parameters? -- Tuning of Diagnosis Support Rules through Visualizing Data Transformations -- Inductive Learning of Simple Diagnostic Scores -- Integration of Intelligent Analysis Methods into Medical Data Bases -- A Virtual Approach to Integrating Biomedical Databases and Terminologies -- Data Mining with Meva in MEDLINE -- Medical Signal and Image Analysis -- Isobologram Analysis in MATLAB for Combined Effects of Two Agents in Dose-Response Experiments -- Towards an Improved On-line Algorithm to Estimate the Fetal Heart Rate from Ultrasound Data -- Health Monitoring by an Image Interpretation System – A System for Airborne Fungi Identification -- Quantification and Characterization of Pulmonary Emphysema in Multislice-CT -- Interactive Visualization of Diagnostic Data from Cardiac Images Using 3D Glyphs -- Applications of Medical Diagnostic Support Systems -- Predicting Influenza Waves with Health Insurance Data -- Fuzzy Inference Systems for Multistage Diagnosis of Acute Renal Failure in Children -- Data Imbalance in Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections -- An Outline of an Expert System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Bronchogenic Carcinoma. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996465797203316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Medical Data Analysis : 4th International Symposium, ISMDA 2003, Berlin, Germany, October 9-10, 2003, Proceedings / / edited by Petra Perner, Rüdiger Brause, Hermann-Georg Holzhütter |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2003.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (VIII, 132 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Medicine
Database management Health informatics Information storage and retrieval Artificial intelligence Optical data processing Biomedicine, general Database Management Health Informatics Information Storage and Retrieval Artificial Intelligence Image Processing and Computer Vision |
ISBN | 3-540-39619-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Medical Models and Learning -- Possibility-Probability Relation in Medical Models -- How Exactly Do We Know Inheritance Parameters? -- Tuning of Diagnosis Support Rules through Visualizing Data Transformations -- Inductive Learning of Simple Diagnostic Scores -- Integration of Intelligent Analysis Methods into Medical Data Bases -- A Virtual Approach to Integrating Biomedical Databases and Terminologies -- Data Mining with Meva in MEDLINE -- Medical Signal and Image Analysis -- Isobologram Analysis in MATLAB for Combined Effects of Two Agents in Dose-Response Experiments -- Towards an Improved On-line Algorithm to Estimate the Fetal Heart Rate from Ultrasound Data -- Health Monitoring by an Image Interpretation System – A System for Airborne Fungi Identification -- Quantification and Characterization of Pulmonary Emphysema in Multislice-CT -- Interactive Visualization of Diagnostic Data from Cardiac Images Using 3D Glyphs -- Applications of Medical Diagnostic Support Systems -- Predicting Influenza Waves with Health Insurance Data -- Fuzzy Inference Systems for Multistage Diagnosis of Acute Renal Failure in Children -- Data Imbalance in Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections -- An Outline of an Expert System for Diagnosis and Treatment of Bronchogenic Carcinoma. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910768167603321 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Medical Data Analysis [[electronic resource] ] : Third International Symposium, ISMDA 2002, Rome, Italy, October 8-11, 2002, Proceedings / / edited by Alfredo Colosimo, Alessandro Giuliani, Paolo Sirabella |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2002.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 230 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemiology
Database management Health informatics Mathematical statistics Information storage and retrieval Artificial intelligence Database Management Health Informatics Probability and Statistics in Computer Science Information Storage and Retrieval Artificial Intelligence |
ISBN | 3-540-36104-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Data Mining and Decision Support Systems -- Knowledge Discovery Using Medical Data Mining -- Analysis of Stationary Periods of Heart Rate via Symbolic Dynamics -- Microcalcification Detection Using a Kernel Bayes Classifier -- The Use of Classification Trees for Analysis of Kidney Images in Computer Assisted Microscopy -- A Neuro-fuzzy Based Alarm System for Septic Shock Patients with a Comparison to Medical Scores -- Determination of Functional Relationships for Continuous Variables by Using a Multivariable Fractional Polynomial Approach -- Medical Informatics and Modeling -- Nonlinear Oscillation Models for Spike Separation -- Modeling Glucose-Insulin Behavior in Ill Patients (DM Type2) -- ECG Acquisition and Management System for Knowledge Discovery in Database: Data Modeling, Design, and Implementation -- The Conceptual Basis of WITH, a Collaborative Writer System of Clinical Trials -- Problems of the Model Choice in Classes of Mendelian Inheritance Models -- Computational Modeling of the Cardiovascular System After Fontan Procedure -- Time-Series Analysis -- Short-and Long-Term Statistical Properties of Heartbeat Time-Series in Healthy and Pathological Subjects -- An Index of Organization of the Right Atrium During Atrial Fibrillation: Effects of Internal Cardioversion -- Morphological Analysis of ECG Holter Recordings by Support Vector Machines -- Monitoring of Sleep Apnea in Children Using Pulse Transit Time -- Linear and Nonlinear Evaluation of Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Invariant and Subject-Dependent Features of Otoacoustic Emissions -- Medical Imaging -- Short Term Evaluation of Brain Activities in fMRI Data by Spatiotemporal Independent Component Analysis -- Implementation of an IT System for the Support of a Hospital Infection Surveillance System -- An Artificial Neural Network for 3D Localization of Brainstem Functional Lesions -- Dependent Rendering: Visualizing Multiple Properties of an Object -- Automatic Detection of Microaneurysms in Color Fundus Images of the Human Retina by Means of the Bounding Box Closing. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996465494203316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Medical Data Analysis : Third International Symposium, ISMDA 2002, Rome, Italy, October 8-11, 2002, Proceedings / / edited by Alfredo Colosimo, Alessandro Giuliani, Paolo Sirabella |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2002.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (X, 230 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Epidemiology
Database management Health informatics Mathematical statistics Information storage and retrieval Artificial intelligence Database Management Health Informatics Probability and Statistics in Computer Science Information Storage and Retrieval Artificial Intelligence |
ISBN | 3-540-36104-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Data Mining and Decision Support Systems -- Knowledge Discovery Using Medical Data Mining -- Analysis of Stationary Periods of Heart Rate via Symbolic Dynamics -- Microcalcification Detection Using a Kernel Bayes Classifier -- The Use of Classification Trees for Analysis of Kidney Images in Computer Assisted Microscopy -- A Neuro-fuzzy Based Alarm System for Septic Shock Patients with a Comparison to Medical Scores -- Determination of Functional Relationships for Continuous Variables by Using a Multivariable Fractional Polynomial Approach -- Medical Informatics and Modeling -- Nonlinear Oscillation Models for Spike Separation -- Modeling Glucose-Insulin Behavior in Ill Patients (DM Type2) -- ECG Acquisition and Management System for Knowledge Discovery in Database: Data Modeling, Design, and Implementation -- The Conceptual Basis of WITH, a Collaborative Writer System of Clinical Trials -- Problems of the Model Choice in Classes of Mendelian Inheritance Models -- Computational Modeling of the Cardiovascular System After Fontan Procedure -- Time-Series Analysis -- Short-and Long-Term Statistical Properties of Heartbeat Time-Series in Healthy and Pathological Subjects -- An Index of Organization of the Right Atrium During Atrial Fibrillation: Effects of Internal Cardioversion -- Morphological Analysis of ECG Holter Recordings by Support Vector Machines -- Monitoring of Sleep Apnea in Children Using Pulse Transit Time -- Linear and Nonlinear Evaluation of Ventricular Arrhythmias -- Invariant and Subject-Dependent Features of Otoacoustic Emissions -- Medical Imaging -- Short Term Evaluation of Brain Activities in fMRI Data by Spatiotemporal Independent Component Analysis -- Implementation of an IT System for the Support of a Hospital Infection Surveillance System -- An Artificial Neural Network for 3D Localization of Brainstem Functional Lesions -- Dependent Rendering: Visualizing Multiple Properties of an Object -- Automatic Detection of Microaneurysms in Color Fundus Images of the Human Retina by Means of the Bounding Box Closing. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143885303321 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Medical Data Analysis [[electronic resource] ] : First International Symposium, ISMDA 2000 Frankfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2000 Proceedings / / edited by Rüdiger W. Brause, Ernst Hanisch |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2000.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 320 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Database management Medicine Information storage and retrieval Computer science—Mathematics Pattern recognition Artificial Intelligence Database Management Medicine/Public Health, general Information Storage and Retrieval Mathematics of Computing Pattern Recognition |
ISBN | 3-540-39949-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Keynote Lectures -- Medical Decision Support Systems -- Medical Bayes Networks -- Synchronization Analysis of Bivariate Time Series and Its Application to Medical Data -- A Survey of Data Mining Techniques -- Time Series Analysis -- Prognoses for Multiparametric Time Courses -- Estimation of the Time Delay of Epileptic Spikes by ICA -- Change-Point Detection in Kinetic Signals -- Hierarchical Clustering of Functional MRI Time-Series by Deterministic Annealing -- Classification of Electro-encephalographic Spatial Patterns -- Detection and Classification of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Using Acoustic Respiratory Input Impedance and Nasal Pressure -- Some Statistical Methods in Intensive Care Online Monitoring — A Review -- Entropy Measures in Heart Rate Variability Data -- Determinism and Nonlinearity of the Heart Rhythm -- Bayes Networks -- Feature Subset Selection Using Probabilistic Tree Structures. A Case Study in the Survival of Cirrhotic Patients Treated with TIPS -- Deconvolution and Credible Intervals using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method -- Graphical Explanation in Bayesian Networks -- Neural Nets -- About the Analysis of Septic Shock Patient Data -- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Medical Applications Using Self-Organizing Maps -- Analysis of Nonlinear Differential Equations: Parameter Estimation and Model Selection -- Machine Learning -- Medical Expert Evaluation of Machine Learning Results for a Coronary Heart Disease Database -- Combining Methodical Procedures from Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Individual-Oriented Simulation -- Incosistency Tests for Patient Records in a Coronary Heart Disease Database -- Architectures for Data Aquisition and Data Analysis -- A MATLAB-Based Software Tool for Changepoint Detection and Nonlinear Regression in Dose-Response Relationships -- A Web-Based Electronic Patient Record System as a Means for Collection of Clinical Data -- The InterAction Database: Synergy of Science and Practice in Pharmacy -- Medical Informatics and Modeling -- A New Computerized Method to Verify and Disseminate Medical Appropriateness Criteria -- Pharmacokinetic & -dynamic Drug Information and Dosage Adjustment System Pharmdis -- Discrete Simulations of Cadaver Kidney Allocation Schemes -- Bootstrap and Cross-Validation to Assess Complexity of Data-Driven Regression Models -- Genetic and Fuzzy Algorithms -- Genetic Programming Optimisation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Pulse Shapes -- Application of a Genetic Programming Based Rule Discovery System to Recurring Miscarriage Data -- Detecting of Fatigue States of a Car Driver -- Operator Method of Fuzzification -- Medical Data Mining -- A System for Monitoring Nosocomial Infections -- A Data Mining Alternative to Model Hospital Operations: Filtering, Adaption and Behaviour Prediction -- Selection of Informative Genes in Gene Expression Based Diagnosis: A Nonparametric Approach -- Principal Component Analysis for Descriptive Epidemiology. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996466042803316 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Medical Data Analysis : First International Symposium, ISMDA 2000 Frankfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2000 Proceedings / / edited by Rüdiger W. Brause, Ernst Hanisch |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2000.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 320 p.) |
Disciplina | 610/.7/27 |
Collana | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
Soggetto topico |
Artificial intelligence
Database management Medicine Information storage and retrieval Computer science—Mathematics Pattern recognition Artificial Intelligence Database Management Medicine/Public Health, general Information Storage and Retrieval Mathematics of Computing Pattern Recognition |
ISBN | 3-540-39949-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Keynote Lectures -- Medical Decision Support Systems -- Medical Bayes Networks -- Synchronization Analysis of Bivariate Time Series and Its Application to Medical Data -- A Survey of Data Mining Techniques -- Time Series Analysis -- Prognoses for Multiparametric Time Courses -- Estimation of the Time Delay of Epileptic Spikes by ICA -- Change-Point Detection in Kinetic Signals -- Hierarchical Clustering of Functional MRI Time-Series by Deterministic Annealing -- Classification of Electro-encephalographic Spatial Patterns -- Detection and Classification of Sleep-Disordered Breathing Using Acoustic Respiratory Input Impedance and Nasal Pressure -- Some Statistical Methods in Intensive Care Online Monitoring — A Review -- Entropy Measures in Heart Rate Variability Data -- Determinism and Nonlinearity of the Heart Rhythm -- Bayes Networks -- Feature Subset Selection Using Probabilistic Tree Structures. A Case Study in the Survival of Cirrhotic Patients Treated with TIPS -- Deconvolution and Credible Intervals using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method -- Graphical Explanation in Bayesian Networks -- Neural Nets -- About the Analysis of Septic Shock Patient Data -- Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Medical Applications Using Self-Organizing Maps -- Analysis of Nonlinear Differential Equations: Parameter Estimation and Model Selection -- Machine Learning -- Medical Expert Evaluation of Machine Learning Results for a Coronary Heart Disease Database -- Combining Methodical Procedures from Knowledge Discovery in Databases and Individual-Oriented Simulation -- Incosistency Tests for Patient Records in a Coronary Heart Disease Database -- Architectures for Data Aquisition and Data Analysis -- A MATLAB-Based Software Tool for Changepoint Detection and Nonlinear Regression in Dose-Response Relationships -- A Web-Based Electronic Patient Record System as a Means for Collection of Clinical Data -- The InterAction Database: Synergy of Science and Practice in Pharmacy -- Medical Informatics and Modeling -- A New Computerized Method to Verify and Disseminate Medical Appropriateness Criteria -- Pharmacokinetic & -dynamic Drug Information and Dosage Adjustment System Pharmdis -- Discrete Simulations of Cadaver Kidney Allocation Schemes -- Bootstrap and Cross-Validation to Assess Complexity of Data-Driven Regression Models -- Genetic and Fuzzy Algorithms -- Genetic Programming Optimisation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Pulse Shapes -- Application of a Genetic Programming Based Rule Discovery System to Recurring Miscarriage Data -- Detecting of Fatigue States of a Car Driver -- Operator Method of Fuzzification -- Medical Data Mining -- A System for Monitoring Nosocomial Infections -- A Data Mining Alternative to Model Hospital Operations: Filtering, Adaption and Behaviour Prediction -- Selection of Informative Genes in Gene Expression Based Diagnosis: A Nonparametric Approach -- Principal Component Analysis for Descriptive Epidemiology. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910143607903321 |
Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2000 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials [[electronic resource] /] / Anne Whitehead |
Autore | Whitehead Anne |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (353 p.) |
Disciplina |
610/.7/27
615.19 |
Collana | Statistics in practice |
Soggetto topico |
Clinical trials - Statistical methods
Meta-analysis |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-27001-2
9786610270019 0-470-36526-9 0-470-85419-7 0-470-85420-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Meta-Analysis of Controlled Clinical Trials; Statistics in Practice; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The role of meta-analysis; 1.2 Retrospective and prospective meta-analyses; 1.3 Fixed effects versus random effects; 1.4 Individual patient data versus summary statistics; 1.5 Multicentre trials and meta-analysis; 1.6 The structure of this book; 2 Protocol development; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Background; 2.3 Objectives; 2.4 Outcome measures and baseline information; 2.5 Sources of data; 2.6 Study selection; 2.7 Data extraction; 2.8 Statistical analysis; 2.8.1 Analysis population
2.8.2 Missing data at the subject level 2.8.3 Analysis of individual trials; 2.8.4 Meta-analysis model; 2.8.5 Estimation and hypothesis testing; 2.8.6 Testing for heterogeneity; 2.8.7 Exploration of heterogeneity; 2.9 Sensitivity analyses; 2.10 Presentation of results; 3 Estimating the treatment difference in an individual trial; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Binary data; 3.2.1 Example: Stroke in hypertensive patients; 3.2.2 Measurement of treatment difference; 3.3 Survival data; 3.3.1 Example: Mortality following myocardial infarction; 3.3.2 Measurement of treatment difference 3.4 Interval-censored survival data 3.4.1 Example: Ulcer recurrence; 3.4.2 Measurement of treatment difference; 3.5 Ordinal data; 3.5.1 Example: Global impression of change in Alzheimer's disease; 3.5.2 Measurement of treatment difference; 3.6 Normally distributed data; 3.6.1 Example: Recovery time after anaesthesia; 3.6.2 Measurement of treatment difference; 4 Combining estimates of a treatment difference across trials; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 A general fixed effects parametric approach; 4.2.1 A fixed effects meta-analysis model 4.2.2 Estimation and hypothesis testing of the treatment difference 4.2.3 Testing for heterogeneity across studies; 4.2.4 Obtaining the statistics via weighted least-squares regression; 4.2.5 Example: Stroke in hypertensive patients; 4.2.6 Example: Mortality following myocardial infarction; 4.2.7 Example: Ulcer recurrence; 4.2.8 Example: Global impression of change in Alzheimer's disease; 4.2.9 Example: Recovery time after anaesthesia; 4.3 A general random effects parametric approach; 4.3.1 A random effects meta-analysis model 4.3.2 Estimation and hypothesis testing of the treatment difference 4.3.3 Estimation of t(2) using the method of moments; 4.3.4 Obtaining the statistics via weighted least-squares regression; 4.3.5 Example: Mortality following myocardial infarction; 4.3.6 Example: Global impression of change in Alzheimer's disease; 4.3.7 Example: Recovery time after anaesthesia; 4.3.8 A likelihood approach to the estimation of t(2); 4.3.9 Allowing for the estimation of t(2); 5 Meta-analysis using individual patient data; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Fixed effects models for normally distributed data 5.2.1 A fixed effects meta-analysis model |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910142478603321 |
Whitehead Anne | ||
Chichester ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley & Sons, c2002 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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