Dynamical Biostatistical Models

"The properties of this book may be summarized in two words: rich and concise. . . this is a very well-written book that manages to cover a lot of ground in a remarkably succinct way. . . I can highly recommend the book."
-Per Kragh Andersen, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics

"I think that those whose research is or will be in the area of dynamical biostatistics would benefit from having a copy on their shelves."
-Alice M. Richardson, Faculty of Education, Science, Technology and Mathematics, University of Canberra, Australia

"This book aims at describing methods of biostatistics modeling, in particular, dynamical model approaches for statisticians, as well as serving as a textbook for postgraduate students... The balance between theory and application is appropriate for both researchers performing biostatistics modeling and for students taking graduate level courses... The book is concisely written so that it covers a wide range of basic and dynamic models and modeling approaches with examples. Statisticians in the industry may feel a large part of the book too technical but can use the book for reference and may also benefit from the rich examples and R-codes, some with translation to SAS, in the appendix."
-Pharmaceutical Statistics

"One of my favorite features of this book is that the same three examples are used throughout, and all the approaches discussed are applied to these examples. This allows readers to identify the similarities and differences of various techniques. Furthermore, it is a good way for readers to learn so-called data mining since diverse information can be mined by applying different statistical methods to the same dataset . . . I believe this book will be a successful text for graduate level courses focusing on dynamical biostatistical models that analyze time-dependent data. Its presentation of conventional methods is very effective."

~Hongjian Zhu,