New Developments in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (Frontiers of Statistics) [Hardcover]

Jianqing Fan (Author, Editor), Xihong Lin (Editor), Jun S. Liu (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 20, 2009 | ISBN-10: 9812837434 | ISBN-13: 978-9812837431 | Edition: 1

This book presents an overview of recent developments in biostatistics and bioinformatics. Written by active researchers in these emerging areas, it is intended to give graduate students and new researchers an idea of where the frontiers of biostatistics and bioinformatics are as well as a forum to learn common techniques in use, so that they can advance the fields via developing new techniques and new results. Extensive references are provided so that researchers can follow the threads to learn more comprehensively what the literature is and to conduct their own research. In particulars, the book covers three important and rapidly advancing topics in biostatistics: analysis of survival and longitudinal data, statistical methods for epidemiology, and bioinformatics.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company; 1 edition (April 20, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812837434
• ISBN-13: 978-9812837431
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,994,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)