Biostatistical Aspects of Health and Population

Contents: Foreword/N.K. Ganguly. Preface. Concerns and challenges for medical statisticians/Padam Singh. Opportunities and challenges for biostatisticians/P.S.S. Sundar Rao. I. Biostatistical methods: 1. On some aspects of developing statistically sound screening strategies for uterine cervical cancer in the perspective of rural India/D. Sengupta, C. Duttagupta, S. Sengupta and P. Bhattacharya. 2. Lot quality assurance sampling in evaluation of immunization programme/Abha Aggarwal and Arvind Pandey. 3. Sample size determination for repeated measurements using summary measure for two groups/V. Chandrasekaran and G. Gopal. 4. Estimation of relative risk under case control designs: comparision of SRSWOR and inverse sampling/Tulsi Adhikari and Padam Singh. 5. On the use of consort statement in clinical trial on remnant ablation of differentiated thyroid cancer/Prem Chandra, S.N. Dwivedi, C.S. Bal, Ajay Kumar, Arvind Pandey, K.R. Sundaram and Padam Singh. 6. Use for neural networks in transformations for symmetry and homoscedasticity/R. Selvaraj and G. Gopal. 7. Use of bootsarp technique for validation of the Cox proportional hazard model/Rajvir Singh, S.N. Dwivedi and Prem Chandra. 8. Bays estimators for shape and scale parameters of exponentiated-Weibull family under linex loss function/Umesh Singh, Pramod K. Gupta and S.K. Upadhaya. 9. A methodological note on assessing the access and utilization of indigenous systems of medicine and homoeopathy in India/R.J. Yadav, Padam Singh and Arvind Pandey. 10. Test of significance for two sample multivariate ophthalmology data/Rishita Nutheti and Chandra Sekhar Garudadri. 11. Factor validity of subjective well being inventory/Narender Kumar. 12. An introduction to bioinformatics and its relationship to data mining/Sunil Suchindran. II. Descriptive and clinical epidemiology: 1. Dynamics of social networking, drug-abuse and risk behaviour to STD and HIV/AIDS in India - a case study of adult male migrants in Surat, India/S.K. Singh, K. Gupta, S. Lahiri and Jean J. Schensul. 2. Stochastic models to study the dynamics of HIV/AIDS : an analytical review/M. Thomas, Suddhendu Biswas, Rehena Sultana and Arvind Pandey. 3. On the estimation of mortality and distribution of incubation period of AIDS/Suddhendu Biswas, Gurprit Grover and Amar Bahadur Gurung. 4. Modelling strategies for epidemiologic process in cancer research/N.S. Murthy, A. Juneja, Shashi Sharma, S.S. Agarwal, K.C. Sharma and Sarita Sardana. 5. Estimating the relative survival using period analysis for South-east England (Thames) cancer registry/Venkata Putcha. 6. Strengthening of NNMB surveys/A.K. Nigam. 7. Study design and methods to evaluate a novel therapy in preventing post partum hemorrhage in rural India/Bhalachandra S. Kodkany, Richard J. Derman, Shivaprasad S. Goudar, Stacie E. Geller, Stanley, A. Edlavitch, Vijaya A. Naik, Ashlesha Patel, Mrutyunjaya, B. Bellad and Shobhana S. Patted. 8. A study of filarial transmission: role of living environment and personal protection/Anil Kumar, A.K.P.C. Swain and Padam Singh. 9. Micro and macro level assessment of prognosis in acute myocardial infarction/N.K. Tyagi and S.V. Kakade. 10. Determining grades of malnutrition in children: an appraisal of approaches used in India/A.K. Nigam. III. Health care programmes: 1. Social representations of health and illness among women: some issues/A.K. Sharma, Shikha Dixit and Mamta Misra. 2. Hospitalisation and health care seeking pattern among slum dwellers of Kolkata, India/Prasanta Pathak. 3. Role of personal care in maintenance of health/R.N. Pandey. 4. Correlates of abortion in India: a socio-demographic study based on RCH data/C.M. Pandey, Pradeep Mishra, Uttam Singh and Pankaj K. Mishra. 5. Domestic violence in rural Gujarat: evidence from national family health survey/Krishna Mohan P.V.T., Ajay B. Pawar and Shahina Begum. 6. Male participation in reproductive and child health: case of urban child slum of Delhi, India/M. Datta, M.C. Kapilashrami and V.K. Tiwari. 7. National population and health policy: a perspective/A.K. Sharma. IV. Population dynamics: 1. Fertility trends in Australia in the seventies and the eighties/Shiva S. Halli and K.G. Basavarajappa. 2. Accounting for the sex ratio of India/S. Krishnamoorthy. 3. Change and determinants of contraceptive use in Uttar Pradesh/L.K. Dwivedi and F. Ram. 4. Contraceptive use in Uttar Pradesh: recent evidences and policy/programme implications/T.K. Roy, Ravi K. Verma and Arvind Pandey. 5. A study of some correlates of sterilization in the slum population of Varanasi/R.N. Mishra, P.K. Mishra, I.S. Paupdeyal, S.P. Singh and Rubee Singh. 6. Differentials in reproductive timings in arid and semi-arid regions of Rajasthan: a hazard model analysis/Ashutosh Ojha, Nandini Roy, V.P. Ojha and D. Sahu. 7. On the estimation of the Sen's index of fertility control/K.K. Singh, Brijesh P. Singh and Kiran Singh. 8. Son preference among rural married men in Maharashtra State of India/Mohan Ghule, D. Balaiah and D.D. Naik. 9. Probability distribution of number of surviving children/R.C. Yadava and Abhay K. Tiwari. 10. Construction and analysis of cause of death elimination tables for India using NFHS-1 data/V. Jayachandran and T.K. Roy.

"The present volume is the compendium of research papers deliberated in a three-day conference during the silver jubilee celebration of the Institute for Research in Medical Statistics and the XX Annual Conference of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics in December 2002. It contains 40 articles illustrating wide spectrum of biostatistical research. Most of the articles cover methodological issues pertaining to health and population and are arranged under 4 major sections--biostatistical methods, epidemiology, health, population and related issues. The volume is an update of biostatistical research. It is hoped that the book will promote exchange of ideas and motivate researchers, programme personnel and policy makers to understand and develop new tools in several areas of human health and motivate all sciences is advancing humanity."