Olsen, Jorn, <br/><br/>
An introduction to epidemiology for health professionals / 
Jorn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray, Anders Ekbom 
 - 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) :  illustrations 
 - Springer series on epidemiology and health,  1869-7933 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Descriptive epidemiology -- Measures of disease occurrence -- Estimates of associations -- Age standardization -- Causes of diseases -- Descriptive epidemiology in public health -- Descriptive epidemiology in genetic epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology in clinical epidemiology -- Analytical epidemiology -- Design options -- Follow-up studies -- Case-control studies -- Cross-sectional study -- Randomized controlled trial (RCT) -- Analytical epidemiology in public health -- Analytical epidemiology in genetic epidemiology -- Analytical epidemiology in clinical epidemiology -- Sources of error -- Confounding and bias -- Confounding -- Information bias -- Selection bias -- Making inference and making decisions -- Sources of error in public health epidemiology -- Sources of error in genetic epidemiology -- Sources of error in clinical epidemiology -- Statistics in epidemiology -- P values -- Calculating confidence intervals. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781441914972 (ebook) 1441914978 (ebook) 9781441914965 (hardback : alkaline paper) 144191496X (hardback : alkaline paper) 9781461426004 (paperback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010922282 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Epidemiology
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA651