Epidemiology
Subtitle: beyond the basics
By: Moyses Szklo, F. Javier Nieto.
Contributors: Nieto, F. Javier.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Epidemiology.; Epidemiology -- Methodology.; Epidemiologic Methods.; Epidemiology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Basic study designs in analytical epidemiology; title: Introduction: descriptive and analytical epidemiology; title: Analysis of age, birth cohort, and period effects; title: Ecologic studies; title: Studies based on individuals as observation units; title: Measuring disease occurrence; title: Introduction: basic elements of epidemiologic inference; defining and counting disease outcomes; title: Measures of incidence; title: Measures of prevalence; title: Odds; title: Measuring associations between exposures and outcomes; title: Introduction; title: Measuring associations in a cohort study; title: Cross-sectional studies: point prevalence rate ratio; title: Measuring associations in case-control studies; title: Assessing the strength of associations; title: Threats to validity and issues of interpretation; title: Understanding lack of validity: bias overview; title: Selection bias; title: Information bias; title: Combined selection/information biases; title: Biases in reporting study results: publication bias; title: Identifying noncausal associations: confounding; title: Introduction; title: The nature of the association between the confounder, the exposure, and the outcome; title: Assessing the presence of confounding; title: Additional issues related to confounding; title: Conclusion; title: Defining and assessing heterogeneity of effects: interaction; title: Introduction; title: How is effect measured?; title: Strategies to evaluate interaction; title: Assessment of interaction in case-control studies; title: More on the interchangeability of the definitions of interaction; title: Which is the relevant model: additive versus multiplicative interaction?; title: The nature and reciprocity of interaction; title: Interaction, confounding effect, and adjustment; title: Statistical modeling and statistical tests for interaction; title: Interpreting interaction; title: Interaction and search for new risk factors in low-risk groups; title: Interaction and "representativeness" of associations; title: Dealing with threats to validity; title: Stratification and adjustment: multivariate analysis in epidemiology; title: Introduction; title: Stratification and adjustment techniques to disentangle confounding; title: Adjustment methods based on stratification; title: Multiple regression techniques for adjustment; title: Incomplete adjustment: residual confounding; title: Overadjustment; title: Conclusion; title: Quality assurance and control; title: Introduction; title: Quality assurance; title: Quality control; title: Indices of validity and reliability; title: Regression to the mean; title: Issues of reporting; title: Communicating results of epidemiologic studies; title: Introduction; title: What to report; title: How to report; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix A: standard errors, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for selected measures of risk and measures of association; title: Appendix B: test for trend (dose response); title: Appendix C: test of homogeneity of stratified estimates (test for interaction); title: Appendix D: quality assurance and quality control procedures manual for blood pressure measurement and blood/urine collection in the ARIC study; title: Appendix E: calculation of the intraclass correlation coefficient.