Contents: Preface. Key note address: challenges for the statisticians in the new millennium/Padam Singh. Presidential address: ISMS--achievements and aspirations/V.G. Kaliaperumal. I. Statistical methods : 1. Accounting for correlation and compliance in cluster randomised trials/T. Loeys, S. Vansteelandt and E. Goetghebeur. 2. A comparative evaluation of odds ratio as obtained through the technique of density estimation and logistic regression/A. Mukherjee, A. Mathur and N.C. Saxena. 3. Effect of cluster sampling on estimation and testing of significance in population based case-control studies/T.C. Gupta and Padam Singh. 4. Estimation of relative risk under case control designs: comparison of SRSWOR and inverse sampling/Padam Singh and Tulsi Adhikari. 5. An approach to assess the linear trend among the means/T. Ramnath and H.N. Saiyad. II. Applications of statistical methods in health and development : 6. Estimation of prognosis in early neonates/N.K. Tyagi. 7. Multivariate statistical approach to measure undernutrition/Diwakar Khare. 8. A theoretical stochastic model for indirect assessment of human endurance fitness/S.S. Verma. 9. Simultaneous dose determination of component drugs in combined drug therapy/S.K. Mandal, M. Abbas and Mukesh Srivastava. 10. Testing profile in bioequivalence in anti-diabetic screening of new compounds/S.K. Mandal, M. Abbas and Mukesh Srivastava. 11. QTc interval in AMI and normal subjects--a statistical comparison/S.V. Kakade, R.N. Kadam, P.M. Durgawale, Y.R. Kadam and D.T. Shirke. 12. Variations in human development index of Indian states: a case study of relative utility of some multivariate statistical procedures/Grace Maria Antony and K. Visweswara Rao. III. Epidemiological Studies: 13. Methods for projection of HIV/AIDS epidemic/P. Venkatesan. 14. EM algorithm approach to estimate HIV intensities and incubation period from reported AIDS cases/M. Thomas. 15. A study on relative impacts of important social parameters on HIV prevalence in Calcutta/S. Basu, A. Basu, P.P. Majumder, J.K. Ghosh, A. Agrawal and S. Pal. 16. Socio-statistical analysis of AIDS’ awareness/Poornima Jain and Diwakar Khare. 17. Estimation of force of filarial infection: use of catalytic models/Anil Kumar. 18. Forecasting of Malaria: a challenge yet to be met/R.C. Sharma, Anil Kumar and Awinash C. Mathur. 19. Cancer in women/Sarita Sardana, N.S. Murthy, Shashi Sharma, A. Sehgal and A.B. Mitra. 20. Feasibility of involving nursing students for early detection and prevention of cancers of Uterine Cervix/S.S. Agarwal, M. Roy, N.S. Murthy, S. Sharma, A. Sehgal and A.B. Mitra. 21. Substance abuse in India: an analysis of NSS 52 round data/D.P. Singh. IV. Population policy and family welfare programme in India : 22. National population policy 2000/K. Srinivasan. 23. Demographic transition and global health: an overview/Arvind Pandey. 24. Comparison of Pareto, Weibull and Mukherjee - Islam models to graduate childhood survival/Anil C. Mathew and S. Krishnamoorthy. 25. Opium consumption and fecundability/J. Lakshminarayana, K.N. Misra and R.K. Kalundha. 26. Health service utilization for maternal complications and perinatal deaths in Himachal Pradesh, 1996/Arun Kumar Aggarwal and Rajesh Kumar. 27. Gender disparity in food-intake among children under age 18 in Delhi/Abha Aggarwal and Arvind Pandey. 28. Immunisation status of children and mothers in the state of Uttar Pradesh/R.J. Yadav, Padam Singh, Anil Kumar, Sharad Mathur and Sunita. 29. Correlates of age at marriage and its implications on family planning among men in rural Maharashtra/M.D. Ghule, D. Balaiah, D.D. Naik, K.T. Hazari and R.C. Parida. V. CME: teaching biostatistics : 30. New concepts in teaching biostatistics/K.R. Sundaram. 31. Medical decision making: role of agreement statistics/L. Jeyaseelan. 32. Measuring quality of life in health/Babu L. Verma. 33. Latent structure analysis--concept and illustration/D.K. Subbakrishna and V.G. Kaliaperumal. 34. Medical informatics/I.M.S. Lamba. VI. Statistics and culture : 35. Epidemiology of health: analytical review and prospective issues/Raj Mani Pandey.
"The book Epidemiology, Health and Population (Statistical Applications) is the outcome from the papers presented at the 18 Annual Conference of Indian Society for Medical Statistics held at Agra. It covers subject areas like epidemiology, health and population beside statistical methods and applications. Several experts in the relevant field from India and abroad contributed papers for this book.
This book has several papers on important topics like statistical methods, applications in health, medicine, epidemiological studies on HIV/AIDS, filariasis, malaria, cancer and drug abuse. It also has contributions on population policy, demographic transition and global health, reproductive health and fertility.
This book presents a good mix of methods and applications in research and would be welcome by the scientific readers interested in statistical applications in biology, medicine, epidemiology, health and population beside others." (jacket)
