Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and Epidemiology
Subtitle: Impacts and Bayesian Adjustments
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: September 25, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781584883357
Subjects: Epidemiology & medical statistics; Mathematics; Epidemiology; Medical / Nursing; Sequential analysis; Science/Mathematics; Biostatistics; Probability & Statistics - Bayesian Analysis; Mathematics / Statistics; General; Bayesian statistical decision; Bayesian statistical decision theory; Error analysis (Mathematics)
First sentence: The quintessential statistical task is to understand or 'learn' the relationship between an outcome variable Y and an explanatory variable X, having observed both variables simultaneously for a number of study units.