Giovanni Parmigiani

Modeling in Medical Decision Making

A Bayesian Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Parallelisierte Algorithmen auf Hochleistungsrechnern ermöglichen in letzter Zeit Simulationen mit immer mehr Variablen und haben zur Entwicklung neuer, aussagekräftiger Hilfsmittel der medizinischen Statistik und Entscheidungsfindung beigetragen. Ausgehend von einem interdisziplinärern Ansatz, konzentriert sich der Autor in erster Linie auf Bayes-Verfahren und deren Anwendung in der Medizin. Fallstudien illustrieren die Ansätze (vor allem Bayes- und Markov-Monte-Carlo-Methoden) und deren Implementation in Computerprogramme. Mit zahlreichen Fallstudien, die nicht nur für die medizinische Entscheidungsfindung relevant und interessant sind.
Recent progress in fast, parallel computing and in simulation-based inference has lead to the development of extremely powerful statistical tools. These can now be successfully applied to address the most pressing practical and ethical concerns arising from medical decision problems.

Produktdetails

• Statistics in Practice
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9780471986089
• ISBN-10: 0471986089
• Artikelnr.: 10075875

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Parmigiani is the author of Modeling in Medical Decision Making: A Bayesian Approach, published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. PART I: METHODS. 1. Inference. Summary. Medical Diagnosis. Genetic
Counseling. Estimating sensitivity and specificity. Chronic disease
modeling. 2. Decision making. Summary. Foundations of expected utility
theory. Measuring the value of avoiding a major stroke. Decision making in
health care. Cost-effectiveness analyses in the SPPM. Statistical decision
problems. 3. Simulation. Summary. Inference via simulation. Prediction and
expected utility via simulation. Sensitivity analysis via simulation.
Searching for strategies via simulation. Part II: CASE STUDIES. 4.
Meta-analysis. Summary. Meta-analysis. Bayesian meta-analysis. Tamoxifen in
early breast cancer. Combined studies with continuous and dichotomous
responses. Migraine headache. 5. Decision trees. Summary. Axillary lymph
node dissection in early breast cancer. A simple decision tree A more
complete decision tree for ALND 6. Chronic disease modeling. Summary. Model
overview. Natural history model. Modeling the effects of screening.
Comparing screening schedules. Model critique. Optimizing screening
schedule. References Index.

Rezensionen

"...good to use as one component in a graduate course...for established statisticians and biostatisticians, the book is a good way to get up to speed..." (Journal of the American Statistical Association, March 2007)

"...strongly recommend...[it] to clinical researchers and statisticians." (Journal of Statistical Computation & Simulation, May 2004)

"...I recommend his book." (Statistics in Medicine, 28 February 2003)

"...a comprehensive presentation of topics..." (Clinical Chemistry, Vol. 49, No. 4)

"...an indispensable volume owing to the clarity of its discussion..." (Journal of Drug Assessment, Vol.6, No.4, 2003)

"...another fine practical applications book..." (Technometrics, Vol. 44, No. 4, November 2002)

"...skillfully brings together sophisticated statistical models and detailed medical applications..." (Applied Clinical Trials, June 2002)

"...surveys inferential methods...features case studies..." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

"...useful to research students in biostatistics...a welcome addition to any undergraduate library in statistics..." (The Statistician)

"...another fine practical applications book..." (Technometrics, Vol. 44, No. 4, November 2002)