An introduction to epidemiology for health professionals / Jorn Olsen, Kaare Christensen, Jeff Murray, Anders Ekbom
Series: Springer series on epidemiology and healthPublisher: New York : Springer, c2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (xii, 161 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
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- 9781441914972 (ebook)
- 1441914978 (ebook)
- 9781441914965 (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 144191496X (hardback : alkaline paper)
- 9781461426004 (paperback)
- RA651
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.