Epidemiology : study design and data analysis /

"Building an up-to-date understanding of the methodologies that can be used to shape public health policies, Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis, Second Edition encompasses the study of epidemiology from the observation of associations between risk factors and disease to the use of pra...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woodward, M (Mark)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, [2005], ©2005
Boca Raton : c2005
Boca Raton : [2005]
Edition:2nd ed
Series:Texts in statistical science
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Fundamental issues
  • 2. Basic analytical procedures
  • 3. Assessing risk factors
  • 4. Confounding and interaction
  • 5. Cohort studies
  • 6. Case-control studies
  • 7. Intervention studies
  • 8. Sample size determination
  • 9. Modelling quantitative outcome variables
  • 10. Modelling binary outcome data
  • 11. Modelling follow-up data
  • 12. Meta-analysis.