Epidemiology

Study Design and Data Analysis, Second Edition

Edición de la obra Epidemiology

"This text provides detailed advice on how to design an epidemiological study; discusses all aspects of analysis, from the descriptive to the advanced; includes computer listings with interpretation; and gives an extensive set of references and exercises with solutions."--BOOK JACKET. "The advantages, disadvantages and alternatives to case-control, cohort and intervention studies are discussed and the crucial concepts, such as incidence, prevalence, confounding and interaction are explained through simple and real-life examples. Throughout the text, emphasis is placed upon interpretation of results in an epidemiological context."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will be invaluable as a textbook for statisticians and medical students studying epidemiology, and as a standard reference for practising epidemiologists."--Jacket.