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| From the preface to the first edition | |
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| From the preface to the second edition | |
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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| The development of veterinary medicine | |
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| The scope of epidemiology | |
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| Causality | |
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| Describing disease occurrence | |
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| Determinants of disease | |
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| The transmission and maintenance of infection | |
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| The ecology of disease | |
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| Patterns of disease | |
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| The nature of data | |
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| Surveillance | |
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| Data collection and management | |
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| Presenting numerical data | |
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| Surveys | |
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| Demonstrating association | |
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| Observational studies | |
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| Clinical trials | |
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| Diagnostic testing | |
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| Comparative epidemiology | |
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| Modelling; The economics of disease | |
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| Health schemes | |
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| The control and eradication of disease | |
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| General reading | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Glossary of terms | |
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| Basic mathematical notation and terms | |
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| Some computer software | |
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| Veterinary epidemiology on the Internet | |
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| Student�s t-distribution | |
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| Multipliers used in the construction of confidence intervals based on the Normal distribution, for selected levels of confidence | |
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| Values of exact 95% confidence limits for proportions | |
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| Values from the Poisson distribution for calculating 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for observed numbers from 0 to 100 | |
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| The Chi-squared distribution | |
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| Technique for selecting a simple random sample | |
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| Sample sizes | |
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| The probability of detecting a small number of cases in a population | |
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| The probability of failure to detect cases in a population | |
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| Sample sizes required for detecting disease with probability, pmin, and threshold number of positives (in brackets) (probability of incorrectly concluding that a healthy population is diseased [in square brackets] | |
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| Probabilities associated with the upper tail of the Normal distribution | |
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| Lower- and upper-tail probabilities for WX, the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank-sum statistic | |
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| Critical values of T+ for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test | |
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| Values of K for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians fore two independent samples | |
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| Values of K* for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians fore two related samples | |
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| Common logarithms (log10) of factorials of the integers 1-999 | |
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| The correlation coefficient | |
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| Some veterinary observational studies | |
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| The variance-ratio (F) distribution | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |