جزییات کتاب
Volume 1 Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 1: Concepts, Principles, Trials, and Designs successfully upholds the goals of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials by combining both previously-published and newly developed contributions written by over 100 leading academics, researchers, and practitioners in a comprehensive, approachable format. The result is a succinct reference that unveils modern, cutting-edge approaches to acquiring and understanding data throughout the various stages of clinical trial design and analysis. Volume 2Featuring newly-written material as well as established literature from the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials, this book provides a timely and authoritative review of techniques for planning clinical trials as well as the necessary inferential methods for analyzing collected data. This comprehensive volume features established and newly-written literature on the key statistical principles and concepts for designing modern-day clinical trials, such as hazard ratio, flexible designs, confounding, covariates, missing data, and longitudinal data. Examples of ongoing, cutting-edge clinical trials from today's research such as early cancer & heart disease, mother to child human immunodeficiency virus transmission, women's health initiative dietary, and AIDS clinical trials are also explored. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–4): Philip Hugh?JonesChapter 2 Some Characteristics of Tribal Peoples (pages 5–24): Ivan PoluninChapter 3 First Contact with a Tribal Society (pages 25–48): Herbert OhlmanChapter 4 Field Methods for the Assessment of Health and Disease in Pre?Agricultural Societies (pages 49–67): Betsy Lozoff and Gary M. BrittenhamChapter 5 Urgent Opportunistic Observations: The Study of Changing, Transient and Disappearing Phenomena of Medical Interest in Disrupted Primitive Human Communities (pages 69–102): D. Carleton GajdusekChapter 6 Where did our Infectious Diseases Come From?: The Evolution of Infectious Disease (pages 103–113): Aidan CockburnChapter 7 Epidemiology of Infectious Disease: The Example of Measles (pages 115–135): Francis L. Black, Francisco De P. Pinheiro, Walter J. Hierholzer and Richard V. LeeChapter 8 Aspects of Infection in Isolated Communities (pages 137–153): D. A. J. TyrrellChapter 9 Health and Disease in Unacculturated Amerindian Populations (pages 155–177): James V. NeelChapter 10 The Kren?Akorore: A Recently Contacted Indigenous Tribe (pages 179–211): R. G. Baruzzi, L. F. Marcopito, M. L. C. Serra, F. A. A. Souza and C. StabileChapter 11 Diet and Nutrition of Hunter?Gatherers (pages 213–226): A. S. TruswellChapter 12 Beliefs and Behaviour in Disease (pages 227–241): G. A. LewisChapter 13 Medical Practice and Tribal Communities (pages 243–261): A. David JonesChapter 14 Pitfalls to Avoid: The Australian Experience (pages 269–301): Isobel M. WhiteChapter 15 The Responsibilities of Intervention in Isolated Societies (pages 303–332): Stafford LightmanChapter 16 Chairman's Closing Remarks (pages 333–336): Philip Hugh?Jones