complete list of titles in this series appears at the end of the volume.
Human and Biological Sciences
Brown and Prescott · Applied Mixed Models in Medicine
Ellenberg, Fleming, and DeMets · Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials: A Practical Perspective
Lawson, Browne, and Vidal Rodeiro · Disease Mapping With WinBUGS and MLwiN
Lui · Statistical Estimation of Epidemiological Risk
Marubini and Valsecchi · Analysing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and Observation Studies
Parmigiani · Modeling in Medical Decision Making: A Bayesian Approach
Senn · Cross-over Trials in Clinical Research, Second Edition
Senn · Statistical Issues in Drug Development
Spiegelhalter, Abrams, and Myles · Bayesian Approaches to Clinical Trials and Health-Care Evaluation
Turner · New Drug Development: Design, Methodology, and Analysis
Whitehead · Design and Analysis of Sequential Clinical Trials, Revised Second Edition
Whitehead · Meta-Analysis of Controlled Clinical Trials
Zhou, Zhou, Liu, and Ding · Applied Missing Data Analysis in the Health Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Buck, Cavanagh and Litton · Bayesian Approach to Interpreting Archaeological Data
Cooke · Uncertainty Modeling in Dose Response: Bench Testing Environmental Toxicity
Gibbons, Bhaumik, and Aryal · Statistical Methods for Groundwater Monitoring, Second Edition
Glasbey and Horgan · Image Analysis in the Biological Sciences
Helsel · Nondetects and Data Analysis: Statistics for Censored Environmental Data
Helsel · Statistics for Censored Environmental Data Using Minitab® and R, Second Edition
McBride · Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: Issues, Problems and Solutions
Ofungwu · Statistical Applications for Environmental Analysis and Risk Assessment
Webster and Oliver · Geostatistics for Environmental Scientists
Industry, Commerce and Finance
Aitken and Taroni · Statistics and the Evaluation of Evidence for Forensic Scientists, Second Edition
Brandimarte · Numerical Methods in Finance and Economics: A MATLAB-Based Introduction, Second Edition
Brandimarte and Zotteri · Introduction to Distribution Logistics
Chan and Wong · Simulation Techniques in Financial Risk Management, Second Edition
Jank · Statistical Methods in eCommerce Research
Jank and Shmueli · Modeling Online Auctions
Lehtonen and Pahkinen · Practical Methods for Design and Analysis of Complex Surveys, Second Edition
Lloyd · Data Driven Business Decisions
Ohser and Mücklich · Statistical Analysis of Microstructures in Materials Science
Rausand · Risk Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Applications
Individual Participant Data Meta‐Analysis
A Handbook for Healthcare Research
Edited by
Richard D. Riley
Keele University
Keele, UK
Jayne F. Tierney
MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL
London, UK
Lesley A. Stewart
University of York
York, UK
This edition first published 2021
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