Nonparametric Bayesian Inference in Biostatistics

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Synopsis

As chapters in this book demonstrate, BNP has important uses in clinical sciences and inference for issues like unknown partitions in genomics. Nonparametric Bayesian approaches (BNP) play an ever expanding role in biostatistical inference from use in proteomics to clinical trials. Many research problems involve an abundance of data and require flexible and complex probability models beyond the traditional parametric approaches. As this book's expert contributors show, BNP approaches can be the answer. Survival Analysis, in particular survival regression, has traditionally used BNP, but BNP's potential is now very broad. This applies to important tasks like arrangement of patients into clinically meaningful subpopulations and segmenting the genome into functionally distinct regions. This book is designed to both review and introduce application areas for BNP. While existing books provide theoretical foundations, this book connects theory to practice through engaging examples and research questions. Chapters cover: clinical trials, spatial inference, proteomics, genomics, clustering, survival analysis and ROC curve.

Book details

Edition:
1st ed. 2015
Series:
Frontiers in Probability and the Statistical Sciences
Author:
Riten Mitra, Peter Müller
ISBN:
9783319195186
Related ISBNs:
9783319195179
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2019-09-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2015
Copyright by:
Springer International Publishing, Cham 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Mathematics and Statistics, Medicine, Nonfiction, Science