New Developments in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics

Download or read book New Developments in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics written by Jianqing Fan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2009 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.