Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (Most) (Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Optimization of Behavioral, Biobehavioral, and Biomedical Interventions: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (Most) (Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Linda M. Collins
$203.99
Publication Date: June 4th, 2019
Publisher:
Springer
ISBN:
9783319891569
Pages:
297
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Description

First book on formal optimization of behavioral and biobehavioral interventions
Methodology is easily transferred to myriad projects and scenarios in which behavioral interventions are already used or may be incorporated
Provides the background to conduct research to optimize behavioral and biobehavioral interventions
Approach presented in this book is a new frontier in behavioral science research that optimizes the intervention before the randomized clinical trial (RCT)

About the Author

Linda M. Collins is Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Professor of Statistics, and the director of The Methodology Center at the Pennsylvania State University. She is interested in most aspects of research methods. Her current work focuses on experimental and non-experimental design, particularly for building, optimizing, and evaluating behavioral, biobehavioral, and biomedical interventions. Professor Collins also has a long-standing interest in models for longitudinal data, particularly latent transition analysis, and other latent class models.

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