Trajectory analysis in health care. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David W. Hollar.
• Authors: Jr, Hollar, David W
• Contents: Longitudinal Data in Health Care: Opportunities and Necessity.-The Problem of Recidivism in Health Care Intervention Studies.- Current Epidemiological Methods.- Longitudinal Data Analysis Methods.- Linearity Versus Nonlinearity in Variable Associations and Time.- Stability and Reversibility/Irreversibility of Health Conditions.- Chaos Theory and Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions.- Poincare Return Maps.- Health Conditions and Behaviors as Topological Surfaces.- Applying Jacobian Matrices to Health Trajectories.- The Lyapunov Exponent.- Phase Transitions in Health and Health Behaviors.- Applications in Cardiology and Neuroscience.- Applications in Health Monitoring and Geographic Systems.- Causality and Inference.- Health Care Interventions for Long-Term Positive Results.- Appendix A. Mathematical Background.- Appendix B. Sample Programming Code for Examples.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Subjects: 610; Medical care -- Mathematical models; Health Services Research; Nonlinear Dynamics; Epidemiologic Methods; Medical care -- Mathematical models
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319596266
• Related ISBNs: 9783319596259
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