Title: Bayesian Thinking in Biostatistics
Description: This thoroughly modern Bayesian book …is a 'must have' as a textbook or a reference volume. Rosner, Laud and Johnson make the case for Bayesian approaches by melding clear exposition on methodology with serious attention to a broad array of illuminating applications. These are activated by excellent coverage of computing methods and provision of code. Their content on model assessment, robustness, data-analytic approaches and predictive assessments…are essential to valid practice. The numerous exercises and professional advice make the book ideal as a text for an intermediate-level course…
Subjects: Medicine, research, Medical statistics, Biometry, Bayesian statistical decision theory, Random variable, Probabilities, Regression analysis, Mathematical statistics