A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology

• Main Authors: Kleinbaum, David G. (Author), Sullivan, Kevin M. (Author), Barker, Nancy D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Medical research.; Statistics.; Quality of life.; Medicine & Public Health.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Infectious Diseases.; Quality of Life Research.; Cancer Research.

A Pocket Guide to Epidemiology is a stand-alone introductory text on the basic principles and concepts of epidemiology. The primary audience for this text is the public health student or professional, clinician, health journalist, and anyone else at any age or life experience that is interested in l...

Table of Contents:

• A Pocket-Size Introduction
• The Big Picture - with Examples
• How to Set Things Up? Study Designs
• How Often does it Happen? Disease Frequency
• What’s the Answer? Measures of Effect
• What is the Public Health Impact?
• Is There Something Wrong? Validity and Bias
• Were Subjects Chosen Badly? Selection Bias
• Are the Data Correct? Information Bias
• Other Factors Accounted for? Confounding and Interaction
• Confounding can be Confounding - Several Risk Factors
• Simple Analyses- 2×2 Tables are not that Simple
• Control - What It’s all about
• How to Deal with Lots of Tables? Stratified Analysis
• Matching - Seems Easy, But not that Easy.