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Modern Epidemiology
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Description
The book covers a broad range of concepts and methods, including epidemiologic measures of occurrence and effect, study designs, validity, precision, statistical interference, and causal diagrams. Topics in data analysis range from Bayesian analysis, sensitivity analysis, and bias analysis, with an extensive overview of modern regression methods including logistic and survival regression, splines, hierarchical (multilevel) regression, propsensity scores and other scoring methods, and g-estimation. Special-topics chapters cover disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, and meta-analysis.
FEATURES:
- Comprehensive and cohesive text on the principles and methods of contemporary epidemiologic research
- Addresses the methodologic issues crucial to the wide range of epidemiologic applications in public health and medicine
- Major sections cover basic concepts, study design and conduct, data analysis, and special topics
- Completely revised and updated to bring you the most updated information
- New chapters cover causal modeling: Bayesian analysis, probabilistic bias analysis, social epidemiology, and use of secondary data
- Includes online access to full text so you have access to the content anytime
(Errata, July 2014)
Product details
Edition:
3
Number of Pages:
758
Release Date:
2012-12-17
Publication Date:
2013-01-31
Publisher:
Lippincott Williams&Wilki
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1451190050
ISBN13:
9781451190052
Weight:
1331 g
Height:
179 cm
Width:
261 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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