Epidemiology and Biostatistics An Introduction to Clinical Research /

• Main Author: Kestenbaum, Bryan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Epidemiology.; Biostatistics.

This is a concise introduction to epidemiology and biostatistics written specifically for medical students and first-time learners of clinical research methods. It presents the core concepts of epidemiology and of biostatistics and illustrates them with extensive examples from the clinical literatur...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. Epidemiology
• 1. Measures of Disease Frequency
• 2. General Considerations in Clinical Research Design
• 3. Case Reports and Case Series
• 4. Cross-Sectional Studies
• 5. Cohort Studies
• 6. Case-Control Studies
• 7. Randomized Trials
• 8. Misclassification
• 9. Introduction to Confounding
• 10. Methods to Control for Confounding
• 11. Effect Modification
• 12. Screening
• 13. Diagnostic Testing
• 14. Genetic epidemiology
• Part 2. Biostatistics
• 15. Summary Measures in Statistics
• 16. Introduction to Statistical Inference
• 17. Hypothesis Testing
• 18. Interpreting Hypothesis Tests
• 19. Linear Regression
• 20. Non-Linear Regression
• 21. Survival Analysis
• 22. Interpreting Data in Journal Articles
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index.