the discharge of elderly patients. This has increased the turnover and shortened the length of stay without an increase in transfer of patients to the geriatric unit. This book is a useful summary of an important problem and will be of interest to physicians in both general and geriatric medicine. RWS THE first edition of this book was published in 1959 and reprinted on ten occasions from then ...

Today’s courses in statistical methods, for the most part, focus on the same methods that were taught 30 years ago. The actual practice of statistics has moved beyond these traditional statistical methods. Modern methods including dynamic graphics, nonlinear estimation, resampling and other simulation based inference methods are being used by many scientists and engineers. However, these method...

In recent years, a very large variety of statistical methodologies, at various levels of complexity, have been put forward to analyse genotype data and detect genetic variations that may be responsible for increasing the susceptibility to disease. This review provides a concise account of a number of selected statistical methods for population-based association mapping, from single-marker tests...