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Regression Methods in Biostatistics: Linear, Logistic, Survival, and Repeated Measures Models (Statistics for Biology and Health)
This new book provides a unified, in-depth, readable introduction to the multipredictor regression methods most widely used in biostatistics: linear models for continuous outcomes, logistic models for binary outcomes, the Cox model for right-censored survival times, repeated-measures models for longitudinal and hierarchical outcomes, and generalized linear models for counts and other outcomes. Treating these topics together takes advantage of all they have in common. The authors point out the many-shared elements in the methods they present for selecting, estimating, checking, and interpreting each of these models. They also show that these regression methods deal with confounding, mediation, and interaction of causal effects in essentially the same way. The examples, analyzed using Stata, are drawn from the biomedical context but generalize to other areas of application. While a first course in statistics is assumed, a chapter reviewing basic statistical methods is included. Some advanced topics are covered but the presentation remains intuitive. A brief introduction to regression analysis of complex surveys and notes for further reading are provided. For many students and researchers learning to use these methods, this one book may be all they need to conduct and interpret multipredictor regression analyses. The authors are on the faculty in the Division of Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, and are authors or co-authors of more than 200 methodological as well as applied papers in the biological and biomedical sciences. The senior author, Charles E. McCulloch, is head of the Division and author of Generalized Linear Mixed Models (2003), Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models (2000), and Variance Components (1992). From the reviews: "This book provides a unified introduction to the regression methods listed in the title...The methods are well illustrated by data drawn from medical studies...A real strength of this book is the careful discussion of issues common to all of the multipredictor methods covered." Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2005 "This book is not just for biostatisticians. It is, in fact, a very good, and relatively nonmathematical, overview of multipredictor regression models. Although the examples are biologically oriented, they are generally easy to understand and follow...I heartily recommend the book" Technometrics, February 2006 "Overall, the text provides an overview of regression methods that is particularly strong in its breadth of coverage and emphasis on insight in place of mathematical detail. As intended, this well-unified approach should appeal to students who learn conceptually and verbally." Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2006 .
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Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media
Strategery is a term borrowed from a Saturday Night Live skit and self-deprecatingly adopted by the White House for their meetings White House Correspondent Bill Sammon is borrowing it yet again in his latest account of this unlikely-yet historic-president. It is written with verve and piercing insight by Sammon, who has been granted unprecedented access to President Bush, Vice President Cheney and their most senior advisers. No other journalist has interviewed the president more times than Sammon..
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Confounding the Color Line: The (American) Indian - Black Experience in North America
Confounding the Color Line is an essential, interdisciplinary introduction to the myriad relationships forged for centuries between Indians and Blacks in North America Since the days of slavery, the lives and destinies of Indians and Blacks have been entwined-thrown together through circumstance, institutional design, or personal choice. Cultural sharing and intermarriage have resulted in complex identities for some members of Indian and Black communities today. The contributors to this volume examine the origins, history, various manifestations, and long-term consequences of the different connections that have been established between Indians and Blacks. Stimulating examples of a range of relations are offered, including the challenges faced by Cherokee freedmen, the lives of Afro-Indian whalers in New England, and the ways in which Indians and Africans interacted in Spanish colonial New Mexico. Special attention is given to slavery and its continuing legacy, both in the Old South and in Indian Territory. The intricate nature of modern Indian-Black relations is showcased through discussions of the ties between Black athletes and Indian mascots, the complex identities of Indians in southern New England, the problem of Indian identity within the African American community, and the way in which today's Lumbee Indians have creatively engaged with African American church music. At once informative and provocative, Confounding the Color Line sheds valuable light on a pivotal and not well understood relationship between these communities of color, which together and separately have affected, sometimes profoundly, the course of American history. .
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Confounding Logic: Over 125 Challenging Exercises
Practicing problem-solving skills can improve performance in all aspects of daily life. Designed to provide a full mental workout, the puzzles in Confounding Logic test intuitive reasoning and deductive skills with over ninety full-color puzzles to challenge the whole family. There are more than 125 challenges that will sharpen numerical intuition, and test lateral thinking and logic. These left-brain puzzles will keep the most devoted puzzlers busy for weeks, so pull out those thinking caps and prepare to crack these amazing cryptic challenges..
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Shoot age as a confounding factor on detecting the effect of human-induced disturbance on Posidonia oceanica growth performance [An article from: Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology]
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: The response of orthotropic rhizome elongation and primary production of Posidonia oceanica to anthropogenic perturbations and potential confounding effects of shoot age were assessed using a Linear Multilevel Model (LMM). This model examined the confounding effect of age by comparing the estimates of impact and variance components obtained by excluding and including Age as an explanatory variable. Age had a negative effect on rhizome elongation and primary production with an annual decrease of 0.6 mm y^-^1 and 7 mg dw y^-^1 respectively. According to the LMM when age effect was omitted, the differences between disturbed and control locations in rhizome elongation and primary production were 2.62 mm y^-^1 and 0.044 g dw y^-^1 respectively. These effects were statistically not significant. On the contrary, when age effect was included in the statistical model, impacts became evident for both variables, with significant differences between disturbed and control locations of 5.85 mm y^-^1 and 0.081 g dw y^-^1 for rhizome elongation and primary production, respectively. Thus, particular attention should be paid to the potential confounding effect of shoots age in analyses of impacts on growth performance of P. oceanica. .
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Option listing effects and the role of confounding events.: An article from: Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics
This digital document is an article from Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics, published by University of Nebraska-Lincoln on September 22, 1997. The length of the article is 3288 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Option listing effects and the role of confounding events. Author: John B. Broughton Publication:Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics (Refereed) Date: September 22, 1997 Publisher: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Volume: v36 Issue: n4 Page: p15(9) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Delayed Diagnosis of Intracranial Aneurysms: Confounding Factors in Clinical Presentation and the Influence of Misdiagnosis on Outcome.(Statistical Data ... An article from: Southern Medical Journal
This digital document is an article from Southern Medical Journal, published by Southern Medical Association on November 1, 2001. The length of the article is 2903 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Delayed Diagnosis of Intracranial Aneurysms: Confounding Factors in Clinical Presentation and the Influence of Misdiagnosis on Outcome.(Statistical Data Included) Author: Prasad Vannemreddy Publication:Southern Medical Journal (Refereed) Date: November 1, 2001 Publisher: Southern Medical Association Volume: 94 Issue: 11 Page: 1108(4) Article Type: Statistical Data Included Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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A chronic bioassay with the estuarine amphipod Corophium volutator: Test method description and confounding factors [An article from: Chemosphere]
This digital document is a journal article from Chemosphere, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: Methods of conducting a chronic sediment toxicity test with the estuarine amphipod Corophium volutator are described. They consist of a 49-day exposure, after which mortality, growth and reproduction are determined. Pilot experiments were used to optimize test design parameters such as temperature, duration, feeding and refreshing regimes, and effects of indigenous organisms. By way of further validation, the present study focused on the effects of four different parameters: oxygen saturation, salinity, ammonium and nitrite. These confounding factors might play an important role especially if the test is used for risk assessment of field-contaminated sediments. It is concluded that the present experimental design is well suited for chronic sediment exposures with C. volutator. The test can be performed at a broad range of salinity values, provided that controls are performed at the same salinity. Results further demonstrate that with the endpoints growth and reproduction this chronic test procedure is a factor 7-18 more sensitive to ammonium and nitrate than the standardized acute bioassay (endpoint mortality). .
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How socialists viewed the American future: socialists envisioning a better future for the United States wrestled with many of the same issues confounding ... Review).: An article from: The Futurist
This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 661 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: How socialists viewed the American future: socialists envisioning a better future for the United States wrestled with many of the same issues confounding us today. (Book Review). Author: Arthur B. Shostak Publication:The Futurist (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2003 Publisher: World Future Society Volume: 37 Issue: 1 Page: 57(1) Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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