This general introduction to the mathematical techniques needed to understand epidemiology
begins with an historical outline of some disease statistics dating from Daniel Bernoulli's …

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OBJECTIVE To compare the findings of multidetector computed tomography (CT) with
surgical pathology and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to determine the accuracy of …

Objectives: To determine whether diagnosis by graded compression ultrasonography
improves clinical outcomes for patients with suspected appendicitis. Design: A randomised …

Aims To systematically compare the impact of catheter‐based bladder drainage methods on
the rate of urinary tract infections (UTIs) amongst patients with neurogenic bladder. Methods …

The book aims at presenting a detailed and mathematically rigorous exposition of the theory
and applications of a class of point processes and piecewise deterministic p-cesses. The …

We consider Markov models for growth of populations subject to catastrophes. Emphasis is
placed on discrete-state models where immigration is possible and the catastrophe rate is …

The increasing rates of resistance among bacteria and to a lesser extent fungi have resulted
in an urgent need to find new molecules that hold therapeutic promise against multidrug-…

… the first time at the beginning of the year t- j (j = 0, 1, 2, ... ). If we represent by Q~j) the
proportion of the cohort enrolling in the ith year ceurse j years later at time t, then it is readily seen …

… Gani similarly highlights academic complicity, across ideological and theoretical divides, in
… Gani makes the case that decades of Orientalist representations of the Middle East among …