Epidemiology kept simple : an introduction to classic and modern epidemiology / B. Burt Gerstman.
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New York :
Wiley,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: Who Studies Epidemiology and Why They Bother
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Epidemiology Past and Present
- 2. Selected Epidemiologic Disease Concepts
- 3. Elements of Infectious and Chronic Disease Epidemiology
- 4. Identification of Disease, Part I (Reproducibility and Validity)
- 5. Identification of Disease, Part II (Case Definitions and Disease Classification)
- 6. Measures of Disease Frequency
- 7. Stratification and Adjustment
- 8. Measures of Association and Potential Impact
- 9. Analytic Study Designs
- 10. Inaccuracy in Epidemiologic Studies, Part I (Imprecision)
- 11. Inaccuracy in Epidemiologic Studies, Part II (Bias)
- 12. From Association to Causation
- 13. Clusters
- 14. Outbreak Investigation
- 15. Computing and Epidemiology
- Index.