Statistical Methods in Biological and Medical Sciences

Genetics and Epidemiology. Methods for the Inheritance of Qualitative Traits (J. Rice, R. Neuman, S.O. Moldin). Ascertainment Biases and their Resolution in Biological Surveys (W.J. Ewens). Statistical Considerations in Applications of Path Analysis in Genetic Epidemiology (D.C. Rao). Statistical Methods for Linkage Analysis (G.M. Lathrop, J.M. Lalouel). Statistical Design and Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies: Some Directions of Current Research (N. Breslow). Evolutionary Biology. Robust Classification Procedures and their Applications to Anthropometry (N. Balakishnana, R.S. Ambagaspitiya). Analysis of Population Structure: A Comparative Study of Different Estimators of Wright's Fixation Indices (R. Chakraborty, H. Danker-Hopfe). Estimation of Relationships from Genetic Data (E.A. Thompson). Measurement of Genetic Variation for Evolutionary Studies (R. Chakraborty, C.R. Rao). Statistical Methods for Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction (N. Saitou). Statistical Models for Sex Ratio Evolution (S. Lessard). Cancer Biology. Stochastic Models of Carcinogenesis (S.H. Moolgavkar). An Application of Score Methodology: Confidence Intervals and Tests of Fit for One-hit Curves (J.J. Gart). Medical Statistics. On Statistical Survival Analysis-I: Kidney-survival Analysis of IgA Nephropathy Patients - A Case Study (O.J.W.F. Kardaun). On Statistical Survival Analysis-II: Confidence Bands for the Survival Function S (t, z) and the Relation with Decision Analysis - Theory (O.J.W.F. Kardaun). Sample Size Determination in Clinical Research (J. Bock, H. Toutenberg)