Modern Biostatistical Methods for Evidence-Based Global Health Research

This book provides an overview of the emerging topics in biostatistical theories and methods through their applications to evidence-based global health research and decision-making.It brings together some of the top scholars engaged in biostatistical method development on global health to highlight and describe recent advances in evidence-based global health applications.The volume is composed of five main parts: data harmonization and analysis; systematic review and statistical meta-analysis; spatial-temporal modeling and disease mapping; Bayesian statistical modeling; and statistical methods for longitudinal data or survival data.It is designed to be illuminating and valuable to both expert biostatisticians and to health researchers engaged in methodological applications in evidence-based global health research.It is particularly relevant to countries where global health research is being rigorously conducted.