Published June, 2021
By Mark Chang, Jim Roach, John Balser and Robin Bliss
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Clinical trials require strategic thinking and innovative methods since some traditional methods are not adequate for the 21st century.To solve these problems requires good methodological skills, but also an in-depth knowledge of the practical problems we are dealing with and a strategic vision of the pig picture.

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Published June, 2021
By Paddy Farrington, Heather Whitaker and Yonas Ghebremichael Weldeselassie
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the self-controlled case series (SCCS) method, a statistical method for investigating associations between outcome events and time-varying exposures.

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Published June, 2021
By Michel Claessens
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
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Although the governments of these countries based their Covid-19 strategy on science, scientists failed to have a decisive influence on decision-makers-except in China-, which created genuine "time bombs." The accelerated development of vaccines does not erase past months' errors.

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Published June, 2021
By Abbas Rajabifard, Daniel Paez and Greg Foliente
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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Understanding pandemic resilience requires input from different disciplines. This book, with worldwide contributions examining the COVID-19 pandemic, provides interdisciplinary analysis and multi-sector expertise on the use of geospatial information and location intelligence to support community resilience and the management of pandemics.

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Published June, 2021
By Sanjay Patole
Publisher: Springer (Springer Nature Switzerland AG)
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While the focus of this book is on systematic reviews and meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials (RCTs), the gold standard of clinical research, the essentials of systematic reviews of non-RCTs, diagnostic test accuracy studies, animal studies, individual participant data meta-analysis, and network meta-analysis are also covered.

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Published June, 2021
By Merryn McKinnon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Health Promotion: A Practical Guide to Effective Communication introduces students to the fundamental principles and practices of health promotion in the Australian and international public health contexts. It combines the core principles and theories of health promotion with those of effective communication.

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Published June, 2021
By Ram Tiwari, Jyoti Zalkikar and Lan Huang
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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This book presents the data mining techniques with focus on likelihood ratio test (LRT) based methods for signal detection. It emphasizes computational aspect of LRT methodology and is pertinent for first-time researchers and graduate students venturing into this interesting field.

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Published June, 2021
By Stephen Burgess and Simon G. Thompson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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Mendelian randomization (MR) uses genetic instrumental variables to make inferences about causal effects based on observational data. It, therefore, can be a reliable way of assessing the causal nature of risk factors, such as biomarkers, for a wide range of disease outcomes.

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Published June, 2021
By Stephen Burgess and Simon G. Thompson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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Mendelian randomization (MR) uses genetic instrumental variables to make inferences about causal effects based on observational data. It, therefore, can be a reliable way of assessing the causal nature of risk factors, such as biomarkers, for a wide range of disease outcomes.

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Published June, 2021
By Geoffrey P. Webb and Geoffrey Webb
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CRC Press)
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This fascinating book gives readers an appreciation of how biomedical research should work and how the reality is all too often seriously flawed.

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