1st Edition
Biostatistical Methods and Applications in Health Research A Case Study Approach
1 - Introduction to Biostatistics
Vivek Verma
Part I Basic Statistics, Probability and Statistical Hypothetical Testing
2 - Descriptive Statistics in Health Research: Methods for Summarizing Health-Related Data
Shafiqur Rahman
3 - Exploratory Data Analysis in Health Research – Describing Measures and Methods for Summarizing Health-Related Data
Nazim Husain
4 - Introduction to Probability
Gholamreza Oskrochi
5 - Statistical Hypothesis Testing for Health Sciences: Parametric and Non-Parametric
Dilip C. Nath and Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee
Part II Regression Models
6 - Regression Analysis Through Illustrations
Amirhossein Jalali and Santosh Kumar Sharma
7 - Statistical Model for Measuring Awareness About the Use of Pentavalent Vaccination Among Infants Through NFHS Data
Shainee Saha and Kishore Kumar Das
8 - Addressing Confounding in Health Science Research
Ahmed Hossain
Part III Survival Analysis, Meta-Analysis and Systematic Reviews
9 - Survival Analysis of Factors Associated with Progression of Cervical Cancer Patients
Mukesh Kumar and Kamalesh Kumar Patel
10 - Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Unveiling Evidence in Health Research
Divya Jain, Prabudh Goel and Anjan Kumar Dhua
11 - A Step-By-Step Guide on Writing a Systematic Literature Review for Prevalence Study
Abdulsalam Ahmed, Hafiz T.A. Khan and Nuha Ibrahim
12 - Meta-Analysis: A Primer
Anoop Kumar and Denny John
Part IV Clinical Trials Design and Analysis
13 - Conceptualization of Clinical Study Design: Insights and Utilities
Pratibha Prasad and Masuma Khanam
14 - Sample Size: Basic Concepts
Prativa Choudhury, Anjan Kumar Dhua and Prabudh Goel
Part V Diagnostic Tests
15 - Inter-Observer and Intra-Observer Reliability
Prativa Choudhury, Anjan Kumar Dhua and Prabudh Goel
16 - A Biostatistical Evaluation of Diabetes Medication Based on HbA1c and Glucose Levels Among U.S. Adults
Vivek Verma, Masuma Khanam, Gagan Gunjan and Divya Jain
Part VI Bayesian Methods and Machine Learning
17 - Applying Bayesian Methods in Diagnostics Tests for Clinical Decision-Making
Vivek Verma, Prabudh Goel, Dilip C. Nath and Hafiz T. A. Khan
18 - Prediction of 90-Day Mortality Using Machine Learning Algorithm
Ramesh K. Vishwakarma, Zillur Rahman Shabuz and Robert Cook
Biography
Vivek Verma, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Assam University Silchar, Assam, India.
Hafiz T.A. Khan, Professor of Public Health and Statistics at the University of West London and a Professorial Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford, UK. For the last three decades, he has been involved in teaching applied statistics, public health, demography, health economics and research methods. He has published more than 260 research articles in various international journals.
Dilip C. Nath, Former Vice-Chancellor of Assam University and Professor of Statistics at Gauhati University, India. He has published more than 200 research papers in reputed national and international journals. His current research interests are in biostatistics, medical statistics, demography and actuarial statistics.
Kenneth C. Land, John Franklin Crowell Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Duke University, where he is also a research professor at the Social Science Research Institute. He worked as faculty in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin and has published more than 450 research papers in various international journals.
