Título: Principles of Biostatistics
Autor: Marcello Pagano, Kimberlee Gauvreau
Sinopse: This edition is a reprint of the second edition published in 2000 by Brooks/Cole and then Cengage Learning. Principles of Biostatistics is aimed at students in the biological and health sciences who wish to learn modern research methods. It is based on a required course offered at the Harvard School of Public Health. In addition to these graduate students, many health professionals from the Harvard medical area attend as well. The book is divided into three parts. The first five chapters deal with collections of numbers and ways in which to summarize, explore, and explain them. The next two chapters focus on probability and introduce the tools needed for the subsequent investigation of uncertainty. It is only in the eighth chapter and thereafter that the authors distinguish between populations and samples and begin to investigate the inherent variability introduced by sampling, thus progressing to inference. Postponing the slightly more difficult concepts until a solid foundation has been established makes it easier for the reader to comprehend them. All supplements, including a manual for students with solutions for odd-numbered exercises, a manual for instructors with solutions to all exercises, and selected data sets, are available at http://www.crcpress.com/9781138593145. Marcello Pagano is Professor of Statistical Computing in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. His research in biostatistics is on computer intensive inference and surveillance methods that involve screening methodologies, with their associated laboratory tests, and in obtaining more accurate testing results that use existing technologies. Kimberlee Gauvreau is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Gauvreau's research focuses on biostatistical issues arising in the field of pediatric cardiology. She also works on the development and validation of methods of adjustment for case mix complexity.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Principles of Biostatistics”, de Marcello Pagano, Kimberlee Gauvreau, publicado pela editora Chapman and Hall/CRC, em 2018 e com 584 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Chapman and Hall/CRC
Páginas: 584
Ano: 2018
Edição: 2
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781138593145
ISBN13: 9781138593145
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Chapman and Hall/CRC oferecem uma experiência de leitura focada em áreas técnicas e científicas, especialmente em estatística aplicada, programação para análise de dados e modelagem matemática. O catálogo privilegia obras que combinam rigor teórico com exemplos práticos, frequentemente envolvendo softwares como R, SAS, MATLAB e Python. A linguagem tende a ser didática e detalhada, adequada para leitores acadêmicos, pesquisadores e profissionais que buscam aprofundamento em temas como análise estatística, bioinformática, modelagem computacional e programação científica. Há títulos que exploram desde fundamentos conceituais até aplicações avançadas, com um equilíbrio entre explicações teóricas e exercícios práticos, o que sugere um público com interesse em aprendizado progressivo e aplicado.
