Through its scope and depth of coverage, this book addresses the needs of the vibrant and rapidly growing engineering fields, bioengineering and biomedical engineering, while implementing software familiar to engineers.

The text addresses the needs of the vibrant and rapidly growing engineering fields, bioengineering and biomedical engineering Implements software with which engineers are familiar Incorporates substantial coverage of Bayesian approaches to statistical inference Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext

Brani Vidakovic is Fellow of American Statistical Association, Elected Member of International Statistical Institute, an Editor-in-Chief of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition, an Associate Editor of: Journal of American Statistical Association, Communications in Statistics, Annals of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, and Bayesian Statistics.

He is Jointly Appointed Professor in School of Industrial and Systems Engineering - ISyE and Department of Biostatistics at Emory University and Adjunct Professor in Jiann-Ping Hsu College of Public Health, Georgia Southern University. Member of Integrative BioSystems Institute (IBSI), at Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, at Biology Department, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Inhalt
Introduction.- The Sample and Its Properties.- Probability, Conditional Probability, and Bayes' Rule.- Sensitivity, Specificity, and Relatives.- Random Variables.- Normal Distribution.- Point and Interval Estimators.- Bayesian Approach to Inference.- Testing Statistical Hypotheses.- Two Samples.- ANOVA and Elements of Experimental Design.- Distribution-Free Tests.- Goodness-of-Fit Tests.- Models for Tables.- Correlation.- Regression.- Regression for Binary and Count Data.- Inference for Censored Data and Survival Analysis.- Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling - BUGS Project.