Bayesian Biostatistics, Vol. 151 Book

	Preface
	Contributors
1	Bayesian Methods in Health-Related Research	3
2	Bayesian Approaches to Randomized Trials	67
3	Bayesian Epidemiology	109
4	Elicitation of Prior Distributions	141
5	Priors for the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials	157
6	A Weibull Model for Survival Data: Using Prediction to Decide When to Stop a Clinical Trial	187
7	Decision Models in Clinical Recommendations Development: The Stroke Prevention Policy Model	207
8	Dose-Response Analysis of Toxic Chemicals	235
9	Expected Utility as a Policy-Making Tool: An Environmental Health Example	261
10	Bayesian Hypothesis Testing: Interim Analysis of a Clinical Trial Evaluating Phenytoin for the Prophylaxis of Early Post-Traumatic Seizures in Children	279
11	Inference and Design Strategies for a Hierarchical Logistic Regression Model	297
12	Model Selection for Generalized Linear Models via GLIB: Application to Nutrition and Breast Cancer	321
13	Bayesian Analysis of Population Pharmacokinetic and Instantanteous Pharmacodynamic Relationships	355
14	Bayesian and Frequentist Analyses of an In Vivo Experiment in Tumor Hemodynamics	389
15	Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Trials Using Graphical Models and BUGS	411
16	Hierarchical Analysis of Continuous-Time Survival Models	429
17	Hierarchical Bayesian Linear Models for Assessing the Effect of Extreme Cold Weather on Schizophrenic Births	451
18	Fitting and Checking a Two-Level Poisson Model: Modeling Patient Mortality Rates in Heart Transplant Patients	467
19	Analyzing Rodent Tumorigenicity Experiments Using Expert Knowledge	503
20	Assessing Drug Interactions: Tamoxifen and Cyclophosphamide	531
21	Bayesian Subset Analysis of a Clinical Trial for the Treatment of HIV Infections	555
22	Bayesian Modeling of Binary Repeated Measures Data with Application to Crossover Trials	577
23	A Comparative Study of Perinatal Mortality Using a Two-Component Mixture Model	601
24	Change-Point Analysis of a Randomized Trial on the Effects of Calcium Supplementation on Blood Pressure	617
25	Bayesian Predictive Inference for a Binary Random Variable: Survey Estimation of the Quality of Care that Radiation Therapy Patients Receive	651
	Index	669