Modelling in Healthcare
(American Mathematical Society, 2010)
LIB 303
This volume is both a broad overview of how modelling works and a practical and usable introduction to the styles of modelling most applicable to healthcare.
An introductory section covers the basics of modelling, explaining how to select, build, and implement a model, along with an overview of data collection and statistical analysis. The heart of the book is a series of self-contained chapters covering different styles of modelling applicable to healthcare, each with an overview, a list of common uses, mathematical details, examples, and related reading. Readers can quickly scan the model overview and common uses sections to determine if a model is applicable to the problem that they are interested in and can study the mathematical details and examples sections if more detail is desired.
Requiring no more than a solid high school level of mathematics, this book is an ideal stepping stone for those new to the subject and a valuable reference guide for those with more experience.
(Description Source: American Mathematical Society)
Authors
Warren Hare is a professor of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. He received his PhD in Mathematical Optimization from Simon Fraser University. He serves as an associate editor with Set Valued and Variational Analysis and the Pacific Journal of Optimization. He is co-author of the book Derivative-Free and Blackbox Optimization, and his research focuses on structured blackbox optimization.
Alexander Rutherford is the director for the Complex Systems Modeling Group with a PhD in Mathematical Physics from the University of British Columbia.
Krisztina Vásárhelyi is the coordinator of the IMPACT-HIV Project with a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Zurich.
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