Modern Biostatistical Methods for Evidence-Based Global Health Research

This book provides an overview of the emerging topics in biostatistical theories and methods through their applications to evidence-based global health research and decision-making. It brings together some of the top scholars engaged in biostatistical method development on global health to highlight...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Chen, Ding-Geng (Din) (Editor), Manda, Samuel O. M. (Editor), Chirwa, Tobias F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:Emerging Topics in Statistics and Biostatistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 8. Statistical Meta-analysis and its Efficience Between Summary Statistics and Individual Participant-level Data: A Monte-Carlo simulation study
  • 9. Multivariate Disease Mapping for Multiple Health Outcomes
  • 10. Measuring Spatial Dependence of Non-communicable Diseases in South Africa
  • 11. Mapping Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan African Region Using Survey Data, Adjusting for Survey Data - Sheyla Rodrigues Cassy
  • 12. Spatial Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Health Sciences: Fifteen years of applications and trends
  • 13. Estimating Determinants of Stage at Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Prevalence in Western Nigeria Using Bayesian Logistic Regression
  • 14. Dynamic Bayesian Adjustment of Educational Gradients in Divorce Risks: Disentangling causation and misclassification
  • 15. Bayesian Dynamic Models for Time-Varying Outcomes: Applications to a patient cohort on ART
  • 1. Harmonization of Longitudinal Population Data: evidence from three rural health and demographic surveillance system nodes in South Africa
  • 2. Adjusting for Selection Bias in Assessing the Efficacy of Health Inputs on Birth Outcome: Evidence from South-Saharan Africa
  • 3. An Indirect Assessment of the Effect of Anthropogenic Activities on the Ecology of the Intermediate Snail Host for Schistosoma Haematobium
  • 4. Diagonal Reference Modeling of Effects of Couples' Educational Differences on Women's Health Care Utilization in Sub-Saharan Africa - Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Michael Carlson
  • 5. Sequential Modeling of Parity Progression Ratios in Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 6. Evidence-informed Public Health, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-analysis
  • 7. Meta-analysis Methods and Empirical Comparison of Aggregate Data and Individual Participant Data Results from Sample Survey Data
  • 16. Suicide Ideation and Associated Factors Among School-going Adolescents in Namibia: A Multilevel logistic regression
  • 17. Bayesian Inference in the Extended Generalized Gamma Model and its Special Cases: With applications on demographic and health survey data from Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 18. Changing Effects of Covariates on Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic Bayesian survival modeling approach
  • 19. Group Outliers and Influence Assessments in Clustered Survival Data Modeling
  • 20. Joint Modeling of Competing Risks Survival and Longitudinal Data