Psychiatric epidemiology
Subtitle: searching for the causes of mental disorders
By: Ezra Susser ... [et al.].
Contributors: Susser, Ezra S., 1952-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780195101812
Subjects: Psychiatric epidemiology.; Mental illness -- Etiology.; Mental Disorders -- epidemiology.; Mental Disorders -- etiology.; Epidemiologic Methods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The burden of mental illness / Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser; title: The arc of epidemiology / Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia; title: Searching for the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser ... [et al.]; title: What is a cause? / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Detecting causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Study designs / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Relationships among causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Measures of association / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Prototypical cohort study / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Diversity of cohort studies / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Causal inference: a thought experiment / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Confounding: what it is and what can be done / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Differential misclassification / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz; title: Logic of the case control design / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Applications of the case control study / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.]; title: Choosing controls / Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser; title: Comparability and the case control study / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Biologic studies in psychiatry / Jack M. Gorman and Ezra Susser; title: Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.]; title: Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry / Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman; title: Gauging associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Establishing associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Planning studies: power and sample size / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Statistical adjustment / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Survival analysis / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Analysis of Interaction / Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan; title: Integrating epidemiology with genetics / Ezra Susser, Habibul Ahsan and Mary-Claire King; title: Genetic association studies / Habibul Ahsan ... [et al.]; title: Modern family history studies / Regina Zimmerman ... [et al.]; title: Twin studies of heritability / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser; title: Genetic linkage studies / Habibul Ahsan ... [et al.]; title: Designs for the genomic era / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser; title: Eco-epidemiology / Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia; title: Causal explanation within a risk factor framework / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser; title: Causal explanation outside the black box / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser; title: Dependent and dynamic processes / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser.