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Epidemiology in medicine / Charles H. Hennekens, Julie E. Buring ; edited by Sherry L. Mayrent ; foreword by Sir Richard Doll.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c1987.Description: xv, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0316356360 (pbk.)
  • 9780316356367 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 614.4 HEN
Contents:
I. Basic concepts. - 1. Definition and background. - 2. Design, strategies in epidemiologic research. - 3. Statistical association and cause-effect relationships. - 4. Measures of disease frequency and association. - II. Types of epidemiologic studies. - 5. Descriptive studies. - 6. Case-control studies. - 7. Cohort studies. - 8. Intervention studies. - III. Description and analysis of epidemiologic data. - 9. Presentation and summarization of data. - 10. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of chance. - 11. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of bias. - 12. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of confounding. - IV. Epidemiology in disease control. - 13. Screening.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Basic concepts. - 1. Definition and background. - 2. Design, strategies in epidemiologic research. - 3. Statistical association and cause-effect relationships. - 4. Measures of disease frequency and association. - II. Types of epidemiologic studies. - 5. Descriptive studies. - 6. Case-control studies. - 7. Cohort studies. - 8. Intervention studies. - III. Description and analysis of epidemiologic data. - 9. Presentation and summarization of data. - 10. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of chance. - 11. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of bias. - 12. Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of confounding. - IV. Epidemiology in disease control. - 13. Screening.