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Encyclopedia of Biostatistics

Copyright © 2010 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Last updated: 13 Jun 2007

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  • Aalen's Additive Regression Model
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (85K)
  • Aalen–Johansen Estimator
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (96K)
  • Abbott's Formula
  • Absolute Moment
  • Absolute Risk
    Full Text: HTML PDF (152K)
  • Absorbed Dose
    • See Risk Assessment for Environmental Chemicals
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (115K)
  • Absorbing State
    • See Markov Chains
      Full Text: HTML PDF (81K)
  • Accelerated Failure-time Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (69K)
  • Access
  • Accident and Emergency Medicine
    Full Text: HTML PDF (64K)
  • Accident Proneness
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (51K)
  • Accrual Period
    • See Sample Size Determination in Survival Analysis
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (66K)
  • Accuracy
  • Actuarial Methods
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (145K)
  • Adaptive and Dynamic Methods of Treatment Assignment
    Full Text: HTML PDF (58K)
  • Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials
    Full Text: HTML PDF (63K)
  • Adaptive Sampling
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (91K)
  • Additive Genetic Variance
    • See Population Genetics
      Full Text: HTML PDF (78K)
  • Additive Hazard Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (55K)
  • Additive Model
    Full Text: HTML PDF (34K)
  • Additive–Multiplicative Intensity Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (78K)
  • Adherence
    • See Compliance Assessment in Clinical Trials
      Full Text: HTML PDF (42K)
  • Adjacent-Categories Logit
  • Adjusted Marginal Tests
    • See Multiplicity in Clinical Trials
      Full Text: HTML PDF (71K)
  • Adjusted Means
    • See Analysis of Covariance
      Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Administrative Databases
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (116K)
  • Administratively Censored
  • Admissibility
  • Admixture in Human Populations
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (68K)
  • Admixture Mapping
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (45K)
  • Adoption Studies
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (70K)
  • Advanced-Stage Disease Incidence
    • See Screening Benefit, Evaluation of
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Adverse Selection
    Full Text: HTML PDF (22K)
  • Age-of-Onset Estimation
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Age–Period–Cohort Analysis
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (195K)
  • Agglomerative Classification
    • See Cluster Analysis of Subjects, Hierarchical Methods
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (132K)
  • Aging Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (80K)
  • Agreement, Measurement of
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (163K)
  • Agreement, Modeling of Categorical
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (73K)
  • Agreement Parameters
    • See Observer Reliability and Agreement
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (68K)
  • Aickin's Alpha
  • AIDS and HIV
    Full Text: HTML PDF (75K)
  • Aitken Acceleration
  • Akaike's Criteria
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (49K)
  • ALGOL 60
  • Algorithm
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (72K)
  • Alias in Experimental Design
    • See Factorial Designs in Clinical Trials
      Full Text: HTML PDF (87K)
  • Alias in Time Series
  • Allele
  • Allelic Association and Disequilibrium
  • Allocation in Cluster Sampling
    • See Cluster Sampling, Optimal Allocation
      Full Text: HTML PDF (53K)
  • Allocation in Stratified Sampling
    • See Stratified Sampling, Allocation in
      Full Text: HTML PDF (52K)
  • Allocative Efficiency
  • Allometry
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (40K)
  • All vs. None Design
    • See Screening Trials
      Full Text: HTML PDF (83K)
  • Alpha Level
    • See Level of a Test
      Full Text: HTML PDF (21K)
  • Alpha-Spending Functions
  • Alternative Hypothesis
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (30K)
  • Alternative Medicine
    Full Text: HTML PDF (52K)
  • Altshuler Estimator
  • Ambulatory Care Services
    • See Health Services Organization in the US
      Full Text: HTML PDF (74K)
  • American Public Health Association
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (34K)
  • American Statistical Association
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (46K)
  • American Statistician
    • See American Statistical Association
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (46K)
  • Ames Test
  • Amstat News
    • See American Statistical Association
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (46K)
  • Analysis of Covariance
    Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Analysis of Variance
    Full Text: HTML PDF (153K)
  • Analysis of Variance for Longitudinal Data
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (59K)
  • Analytic Epidemiology
    Full Text: HTML PDF (19K)
  • Analytic Hierarchy Process
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (89K)
  • Ancillary Statistics
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (58K)
  • ANCOVA
    • See Analysis of Covariance
      Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Andrews Plot
  • Angular Transformation
  • Animal Experiments
  • Animal Screening Systems
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (55K)
  • Annealing Techniques
  • ANOVA
    • See Analysis of Variance
      Full Text: HTML PDF (153K)
  • Antagonism
    • See Synergy of Exposure Effects
      Full Text: HTML PDF (65K)
  • Anthropometry
    Full Text: HTML PDF (74K)
  • Anticipated Treatment Effect (ATE)
    • See Sample Size Determination for Clinical Trials
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (84K)
  • Anticipation
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (33K)
  • Antidependence Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (41K)
  • Antithetic Variable
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (37K)
  • A-Optimality
  • Aperiodic Chain
    • See Markov Chains
      Full Text: HTML PDF (81K)
  • Approximation
  • Arcsine Transformation
  • Areal Data
  • Area Under the Curve (AUC)
  • ARMA and ARIMA Models
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (89K)
  • Armitage-Doll Multistage Model
    • See Dose–Response Models in Risk Analysis
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (64K)
  • Armitage Sequential Designs
  • Artificial Intelligence
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (55K)
  • Ascertainment
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (89K)
  • Aspin–Welch Test
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (45K)
  • Association
    Full Text: HTML PDF (28K)
  • Association, Directed; Association, Symmetric
    • See Statistical Dependence and Independence
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (52K)
  • Association, Measures of
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (83K)
  • Assortative Mating
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (52K)
  • Asymptotic Relative Efficiency (ARE)
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (74K)
  • Asymptotic Theory
    • See Large-Sample Theory
      Full Text: HTML PDF (150K)
  • Asymptotic Validity
    • See Measurement Error in Epidemiologic Studies
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (256K)
  • Attack Rate
    • See Absolute Risk
      Full Text: HTML PDF (152K)
  • Attenuation
    • See Measurement Error in Epidemiologic Studies
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (256K)
  • Attractor
  • Attributable Fraction in Exposed
    Full Text: HTML PDF (35K)
  • Attributable Risk
    Full Text: HTML PDF (128K)
  • Audit in Clinical Trials
    • See Clinical Trials Audit and Quality Control
      Full Text: HTML PDF (58K)
  • Autocorrelation Function
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (42K)
  • Auto-logistic Model
  • Autoregressive Process
  • Autosome
  • Auxiliary Variables
    • See Surrogate Endpoints
      Full Text: HTML PDF (85K)
  • Available Case Analysis for Missing Data
    • See Missing Data Estimation, “Hot Deck” and “Cold Deck”
      Full Text: HTML PDF (38K)
  • Average Age at Death
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (30K)
  • Average Age of Infection
  • Average Daily Dose
    • See Risk Assessment for Environmental Chemicals
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (115K)
  • Average Duration of Survival
  • Average Man
  • Average Run Length
    • See Quality Control in Laboratory Medicine
      Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (109K)
  • Average Shifted Histogram
  • Axes in Multivariate Analysis
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (42K)
  • Axioms of Probability
    Abstract | Full Text: HTML PDF (48K)
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