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Nonclinical statistics for pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. (English) Zbl 1329.92005

Statistics for Biology and Health. Cham: Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-23557-8/hbk; 978-3-319-23558-5/ebook). xxii, 698 p. (2016).
Publisher’s description: This book serves as a reference text for regulatory, industry and academic statisticians and also a handy manual for entry level statisticians. Additionally it aims to stimulate academic interest in the field of nonclinical statistics and promote this as an important discipline in its own right. This text brings together for the first time in a single volume a comprehensive survey of methods important to the nonclinical science areas within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Specifically the discovery and translational sciences, the safety/toxiology sciences, and the chemistry, manufacturing and controls sciences. Drug discovery and development is a long and costly process. Most decisions in the drug development process are made with incomplete information. The data is rife with uncertainties and hence risky by nature. This is therefore the purview of statistics. As such, this book aims to introduce readers to important statistical thinking and its application in these nonclinical areas. The chapters provide as appropriate, a scientific background to the topic, relevant regulatory guidance, current statistical practice, and further research directions.
The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.

MSC:

92-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to biology
62-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics
92B15 General biostatistics
62-07 Data analysis (statistics) (MSC2010)
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