Advanced Medical Statistics

The book aims to provide both comprehensive reviews of the classical methods and an introduction to new developments in medical statistics. The topics range from meta analysis, clinical trial design, causal inference, personalized medicine to machine learning and next generation sequence analysis.Very broad topics in medical statistics are addressed. Not only is a rigorous theoretical background emphasized but motivation, applications, examples and computational aspects of the related statistical methods are given adequate weightage. The volume thus provides a convenient starting point for readers who want to be familiar with the most current status of an area of interest.