Quantitative methods for health research
Subtitle: a practical interactive guide
By: Nigel Bruce, Daniel Pope, and Debbi Stanistreet.
Contributors: Pope, Daniel, 1969-; Stanistreet, Debbi, 1963-
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex; Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470022740; 9780470022757
Subjects: Medicine -- Research -- Methodology; Health -- Research -- Methodology; Epidemiology -- Research -- Methodology; Epidemiology; Epidemiologic Methods; Biomedical Research -- methods; Biometry -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophy of science and introduction to epidemiology; title: Routine data sources and descriptive epidemiology; title: Standardisation; title: Surveys; title: Cohort studies; title: Case-control studies; title: Intervention studies; title: Life tables, survival analysis, and cox regression; title: Systematic reviews and meta analysis; title: Prevention strategies and evaluation of screening; title: Probability distributions, hypothesis testing, and Bayesian methods.