The last half century has witnessed two landmark events in medical history. The 1970s saw euphoria about the defeat of one of humankind's oldest disease scourges with the global eradication of smallpox. To set against this, the 2020s are experiencing the pandemic ravages of new viral diseases, of which COVID-19 is currently the most potent. But it is only the latest of a succession of threats. A Geography of Infection explores the distinctive spatial patterns and processes by which such infectious diseases spread from place to place and can grow from local and regional epidemics into global pandemics.\nThis resource focuses initially on the local scale of doctors' practices and small islands where epidemic outbreaks are slight in the numbers infected and in geographical extent. Such local area studies raise two questions. First, how and where do epidemic diseases emerge and second, why do more diseases appear to be emerging now? To approach such questions implies a shift in spatial gear from painting epidemics with a fine-tipped local brush to an expanded palette on which doctors' practices and small islands are replaced by regional and global populations. Simultaneously, time bands are extended backwards to the origins of civilization and forwards into the twenty-first century. It eventually leads to a consideration of global pandemics - both historical (for example, plague, cholera and influenza) and contemporary (HIV/AIDS and COVID-19) and examines the ways the spread of infection can be prevented. All chapters are extensively illustrated with full-colour diagrams and maps - some 
of which are in colour for the first time.\nBringing together the authors' collective 150 years of experience in research, mapping, and writing on spatial aspects of medical history, this is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the spread, control, and eradication of epidemic and pandemic diseases.

A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics

Medical Books

HAGGETT, PETER

Cliff, Andrew D.

Ord, J. Keith

Smallman-Raynor, Matthew R.

Medicine

Oxford University Press

This thorough revision of a classic text covers many new areas, including moving-average and auto-regressive moving-average schemes; estimation using transfer functions; state space models, and much more.

Time Series (Charles Griffin Book)

Kendall, Sir Maurice

The original three-volume Advanced Theory of Statistics has long been regarded as the definitive work on statistical theory. The fifth edition of Volume I was published in 1987. Now, the fifth edition of Volume 2 is available. Considerably reshaped, this volume contains a great deal of new material and omits topics that will be treated in later volumes. Volumes 1 and 2 now present the essential topics that every statistician needs to know. These two core volumes will be supplemented in due course by a volume on Bayesian Inference and by a series of monographs on more specialized topics. Volume 2 covers the theory of estimation, testing hypotheses, regression, and comparative statistical inference. Part of the analysis of variance has been incorporated from Volume 3, which, with other chapters, provides a more complete treatment of the linear model than can be found anywhere else in the literature. This is a work that every statistician will find an invaluable source of insight and information.

Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics, Vol. 2: Classical Inference and Relationship, 5th Edition

Science & Math

Kendall, the late Sir Maurice

Stuart, Alan

Mathematics

This major revision contains a largely new chapter 7 providing an extensive discussion of the bivariate and multivariate versions of the standard distributions and families. Chapter 16 has been enlarged to cover multivariate sampling theory, an updated version of material previously found in the old Volume III. The previous chapters 7 and 8 have been condensed into a single chapter providing an introduction to statistical inference. Elsewhere, major updates include new material on skewness and kurtosis, hazard rate distributions, the bootstrap, the evaluation of the multivariate normal integral and ratios of quadratic forms. The new edition includes over 200 new references, 40 new exercises and 20 further examples in the main text. In addition, all the text examples have been given titles, and these are listed at the front of the book for easier reference.

Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Hodder Education Publishers

This new edition of the classic statistical book Classical Inference and Relationship completes the current three-volume set of Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics. It has been fully revised and expanded to over 800 pages, representing the state of the art in classical statistical inference.

Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics (Volume 2A)

Arnold, Steven

Elements of Spatial Structure: A Quantative Approach (Cambridge Geographical Studies, Series Number 6)

Elements of Spatial Structure is a contribution to the literature on spatial series. Written by a group with varied backgrounds in engineering, geography and statistics, who collaborated at Bristol University in the early 1970s, the book analyses certain basic properties of spatial structure. It shows how spatial elements form an essential part of the real-world problems of population distribution, of urban and regional economies, and of diffusion processes. The book is divided into three parts. Part one is concerned with a static cross-sectional approach to spatial structure and explores some aspects of the central geographical problems of region-building and trend-surface mapping. Part two moves to a dynamic framework and extends time-series analysis in a regional framework. It includes two chapters on the application of the models presented to diffusion and unemployment data in south-west England. Part three links the first two parts together through a consideration of spatial autocorrelation and spatial forecasting. Again, formal models are presented and an attempt is made to gauge their utility by applying them to test problems in the south-west.

Bassett, Keith A.

Davies, Richard B.

Travel

Cambridge University Press

Earth Sciences

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Ord, J. Keith. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Ord, J. Keith