TY - BOOK AU - Gibbons,Robert D. AU - Amatya,Anup K. TI - Statistical methods for drug safety T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC biostatistics series SN - 9781466561847 U1 - 000SB:615.704 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press, KW - Pharmacoepidemiology KW - Statistical methods KW - Drugs KW - Safety measures N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic Statistical Concepts; 3. Multi-level Models; 4. Causal Inference; 5. Analysis of Spontaneous Reports; 6. Meta-analysis; 7. Ecological Methods; 8. Discrete-time Survival Models; 9. Research Synthesis; 10. Analysis of Medical Claims Data; 11. Methods to be Avoided; 12. Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index N2 - Explore Important Tools for High-Quality Work in Pharmaceutical SafetyStatistical Methods for Drug Safety presents a wide variety of statistical approaches for analyzing pharmacoepidemiologic data. It covers both commonly used techniques, such as proportional reporting ratios for the analysis of spontaneous adverse event reports, and newer approaches, such as the use of marginal structural models for controlling dynamic selection bias in the analysis of large-scale longitudinal observational data ER -