1st Edition

Statistical Methods for Drug Safety

By Robert D. Gibbons, Anup Amatya Copyright 2016
308 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

308 Pages 36 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

308 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

Explore Important Tools for High-Quality Work in Pharmaceutical Safety Statistical Methods for Drug Safety presents a wide variety of statistical approaches for analyzing pharmacoepidemiologic data. It covers both commonly used techniques, such as proportional reporting ratios for the analysis of spontaneous adverse event reports, and newer approaches, such as the use of marginal... Read more

Introduction. Basic Statistical Concepts. Multi-Level Models. Causal Inference. Analysis of Spontaneous Reports. Meta-Analysis. Ecological Methods. Discrete-Time Survival Models. Research Synthesis. Analysis of Medical Claims Data. Methods to Be Avoided. Summary and Conclusions. Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Robert D. Gibbons, PhD, is a professor of biostatistics in the Departments of Medicine, Public Health Sciences, and Psychiatry and director of the Center for Health Statistics at the University of Chicago. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He has been a recipient of the ASA’s Outstanding Statistical Application Award and two Youden Prizes.



Anup Amatya, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences at New Mexico State University. His current research focuses on meta-analysis of sparse binary data and sample size determination in hierarchical non-linear models.