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DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43537) has announced the addition of Biostatistics in Clinical Trials to their offering

Featuring articles from the prestigious Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, many of which have been fully revised and updated to include recent developments, Biostatistics in Clinical Trials also includes up to 25% newly commissioned material reflecting the latest thinking in:

- Bayesian methods

- Benefit/risk assessment

- Cost-effectiveness

- Ethics

- Fraud

With exceptional contributions from leading experts in academia, government and industry, Biostatistics in Clinical Trials has been designed to complement existing texts by providing extensive, up-to-date coverage and introducing the reader to the research literature.

Offering comprehensive coverage of all aspects of clinical trials Biostatistics in Clinical Trials:

- Includes concise definitions and introductions to numerous concepts found in current literature

- Discusses the software and textbooks available

- Uses extensive cross-references helping to facilitate further research and enabling the reader to locate definitions and related concepts

Biostatistics in Clinical Trials offers both academics and practitioners from various disciplines and settings, such as universities, the pharmaceutical industry and clinical research organisations, up-to-date information as well as references to assist professionals involved in the design and conduct of clinical trials.

Key Topics Covered Include:

- Adaptive and Dynamic Methods of Treatment Assignment

- Antibacterial Agent Trials

- Bayesian Method

- Benefit/Risk Assessment

- Binding or Masking

- Clinical Significance Versus Statistical Significance

- Clinical Trials, Overview

- Cluster Randomization randomization (ranˈ·d·m  

- Controlled Clinical Trials controlled clinical trial,
n a research strategy that calls for two samples: an experimental sample of patients receiving a pharmaceutical, and a second sample of control patients receiving a placebo.
 

- Cooperative Cancer Trials

- Data and Safety Monitoring

- Data and Safety Monitoring Boards

- Data Management and Coordination

- Drug Approval and Regulation

- European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry, abbreviated to PSI[1], is an organisation for the promotion of statistical thinking in order to improve the quality of research and development in the pharmaceutical industry.  (EFPSI)

- European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC EORTC European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer )

- Medical Research Council (MRC See Maximum return criterion. ) Streptomycin streptomycin (strĕp'tōmī`sĭn), antibiotic produced by soil bacteria of the genus Streptomyces and active against both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (see Gram's stain), including species resistant to other  Trial

- Pharmaceutical Industry

- Randomized ran·dom·ize  
tr.v. ran·dom·ized, ran·dom·iz·ing, ran·dom·iz·es
To make random in arrangement, especially in order to control the variables in an experiment.
 Treatment Assignment

- Statistical Review for Medical Journals

- University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP UGDP University Group Diabetes Program )

- Vaccine Studies

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c43537
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