AIDS Epidemiology

They have accomplished their goals with a very clearly written, comprehensive, and well organized book. This book should be read by all health professionals who need to understand the quantitative aspects of HIV/AIDS epidemics. It will also be a valuable reference book for anyone involved with clinical or epidemiological studies of HIV/AIDS. * Dr Chin, University of California *
This volume presents the contributions that statistical science can make toward current studies in the prevention and control of diseases caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), as well as estimating the magnitude and future course of the HIV epidemic ... the author thoroughly examine methods for monitoring and predicting the scope of the AIDS epidemic. * American Journal of Public Health, September 1994, Vol. 84, No. 9 *
the authors of the book under review here became the John Graunts of the HIV epidemic ... Working closely with the CDC, they were involved in the development of many of the statistical methods used in the analysis of HIV/AIDS data ... This book gives a careful description of these methods. In addition, it gives much of the quantitative history of the epidemic in the United States ... should be of particular interest to biostatisticians and epidemiologists who deal with epidemiological data, but should also be of interest to infectious disease scientists who are not necessarily quantitatively oriented. I would recommend the book both as a text and as a reference. * Ira M. Longini Jr., Emory University School of Public Health, Science, Vol. 265, September 1994 *
an impressive and authoritative account of the subject ... While the book is addressed to specialists, a general statistical reader who has not followed work on AIDS is likely to be interested and impressed by the wide range of ideas, techniques and special methods involved * D R Cox, Nuffield College, Pub of International Statistical Institute *
This book draws together the wide range of work undertaken by the authors on the statistical analysis of data on the human immunodeficiency virus ... drawing together an impressive amount of data with statistical methods for their analysis, while highlighting the many problems in interpreting results ... this book provides a clear and readable review of the statistical methods used to gain a better understanding of the AIDS epidemic, which will be useful to both epidemiologists and statisticians. * Azra Ghani, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, JRSS, Series A, Vol. 158, part 2, 1995 *