Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health - Couverture souple

Pfeiffer, Ruth M.; Gail, Mitchell H.

 
9780367657819: Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health

Synopsis

This book addresses the development, evaluation, and application of models of absolute risk- the probability of developing a specific disease over a specified time interval in the presence of competing causes of mortality. It discusses the development of appropriate statistical methods for estimating and applying absolute risk.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ruth M. Pfeiffer is a mathematical statistician and Fellow of the American Statistical Association, with interests in risk modeling, dimension reduction, and applications in epidemiology. She developed absolute risk models for breast cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, and second primary thyroid cancer following a childhood cancer diagnosis.

Mitchell H. Gail developed the widely used "Gail model" for projecting the absolute risk of invasive breast cancer. He is a medical statistician with interests in statistical methods and applications in epidemiology and molecular medicine. He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and former President of the American Statistical Association.

Both are Senior Investigators in the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9781466561656: Absolute Risk: Methods and Applications in Clinical Management and Public Health

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1466561653 ISBN 13 :  9781466561656
Editeur : CRC Press Inc, 2017
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