Modern Biostatistical Methods for Evidence-Based Global Health Research (Hardcover)

1. Harmonization of Longitudinal Population Data: evidence from three rural health and demographic surveillance system nodes in South Africa - Taurayi Mudzana.- 2. Adjusting for Selection Bias in Assessing the Efficacy of Health Inputs on Birth Outcome: Evidence from South-Saharan Africa - Gebrenegus Ghilagaber.- 3. An Indirect Assessment of the Effect of Anthropogenic Activities on the Ecology of the Intermediate Snail Host for Schistosoma Haematobium - Irene A. Larbi, Abena S. Amoah, Michael D. Wilson, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, Peter J. Diggle.- 4. Diagonal Reference Modeling of Effects of Couples' Educational Differences on Women's Health Care Utilization in Sub-Saharan Africa - Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Michael Carlson.- 5. Sequential Modeling of Parity Progression Ratios in Sub-Saharan Africa - Gebrenegus Ghilagaber, Paraskevi Peristera.- 6. Evidence-informed Public Health, Systematic Reviews, and Meta-analysis - Samuel A. Abriga, Birhanu Ayele, Michael McCaul, Alfred Musekiwa, Elanor Ochodo, Anke Rohwer.- 7. Meta-analysis Methods and Empirical Comparison of Aggregate Data and Individual Participant Data Results from Sample Survey Data - Samuel Manda, Rejoice Msiska, Tsirizani Kaombe.- 8. Statistical Meta-analysis and its Efficience Between Summary Statistics and Individual Participant-level Data: A Monte-Carlo simulation study - (Din) Ding-Geng Chen.- 9. Multivariate Disease Mapping for Multiple Health Outcomes - Samuel Manda.- 10. Measuring Spatial Dependence of Non-communicable Diseases in South Africa - Timotheus B. Darikwa, Samuel Manda, Maseka Lesaoana.- 11. Mapping Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan African Region Using Survey Data, Adjusting for Survey Data - Sheyla Rodrigues Cassy, Samuel Manda, Filipe Marques.- 12. Spatial Multi-criteria Decision Analysis in Health Sciences: Fifteen years of applications and trends - Njeri Wabiri.- 13. Estimating Determinants of Stage at Diagnosis of Breast Cancer Prevalence in Western Nigeria Using Bayesian Logistic Regression - Ebenezer Ogunsakin, (Din) Ding-Geng Chen.- 14. Dynamic Bayesian Adjustment of Educational Gradients in Divorce Risks: Disentangling causation and misclassification - Parfait Munezero, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber.- 15. Bayesian Dynamic Models for Time-Varying Outcomes: Applications to a patient cohort on ART - Lineekela Gabriel, Lawrence N. Kazembe.- 16. Suicide Ideation and Associated Factors Among School-going Adolescents in Namibia: A Multilevel logistic regression - S.R.N. Kapenda, L. Pazvakawambwa.- 17. Bayesian Inference in the Extended Generalized Gamma Model and its Special Cases: With applications on demographic and health survey data from Sub-Saharan Africa - Yuli Liang, Gebrenegus Ghilagaber.- 18. Changing Effects of Covariates on Childhood Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: A dynamic Bayesian survival modeling approach - Parfait Munezero.- 19. Group Outliers and Influence Assessments in Clustered Survival Data Modeling - Tsirizani Kaombe, Samuel Manda.- 20. Joint Modeling of Competing Risks Survival and Longitudinal Data - Danger D. Masangwi, Adamson S. Muula, Mavuto F. Mukaka.