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

By: Hennekens, Charles H.
Contributor(s): Buring, Julie E | Mayrent, Sherry L.
Publisher: Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c1987Description: xv, 383 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0316356360 (pbk.); 9780316356367 (pbk.).Subject(s): EpidemiologyDDC classification: 614.4
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.