Pocket Guide to Epidemiology

Name: Pocket Guide to Epidemiology
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ISBN: 9780387459646

ISBN-10: 0387459642

ISBN-13: 9780387459646

Edition: 2007

Authors: David G. Kleinbaum, Kevin M. Sullivan, Nancy D. Barker

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A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology is a stand-alone introductory text on the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology. The primary audience for this text is the public health student or professional, clinician, health journalist, and anyone else at any age or life experience that is interested in learning what epidemiology is all about in a convenient, easy to understand format with timely, real-world health examples.

Book details

List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 12/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.22" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Preface



A Pocket-Size Introduction



The Big Picture - With Examples



How to Set Things Up? Study Designs



How Often does it Happen? Disease Frequency



What's the Answer? Measures of Effect



What is the Public Health Impact?



Is There Something Wrong? Validity & Bias



Were Subjects Chosen Badly? Selection Bias



Are the Data Correct? Information Bias



Other Factors Accounted For? Confounding Interaction



Confounding can be Counfounding - Several Risk Factors



Simple Analyses - 2x2 Tables are Not That Simple



Control - What it's All About



How to Deal with Lots of Tables - Stratified Analysis



Matching - Seems Easy, but not That Easy


Index