Advances in Epidemiological and Statistical Methods for Medical Research
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2024 | Viewed by 9010
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Interests: statistical methods; epidemiological study design; risk modeling; cardiovascular disease; cancer
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce this Special Issue entitled “Advances in Epidemiological and Statistical Methods for Medical Research". In additional to original methodologic research, we are particularly interested in topic overviews, tutorials, and seminal work of current interest in the field.
We hope this Special Issue will be of interest to you. Collaboration with students and research fellows in your group also is encouraged. Following submission, manuscripts will receive prompt attention and undergo fair but thorough review by experts in the field.
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Prof. Dr. Jimmy T. Efird
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- epidemiologic methods
- causal inference
- clinical trial methodology
- mendelian randomization
- imputation techniques
- log-linear models
- genetic biomarker analysis
- statistical genetics modeling
- bayesian methods
- advanced methods for risk assessment
- survival analysis and longitudinal data methods
- epidemiological measures
- pharmacoepidemiological analytics
- spatial analysis
- medical research methodology
- multivariate modelling
- big data approaches and machine learning
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