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Description: |
xvii, [1], 865 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: 1. Introduction and causal concepts -- 2. Sampling -- 3. Questionnaire design -- 4. Measures of disease frequency -- 5. Screening and diagnostic tests -- 6. Measures of association -- 7. Introduction to observational studies -- 8. Cohort studies -- 9. Case-control studies -- 10. Hybrid study designs -- 11. Controlled studies -- 12. Validity in observational studies -- 13. Confounding: detection and control -- 14. Linear regression -- 15. Model-building strategies -- 16. Logistic regression -- 17. Modelling ordinal and multinomial data -- 18. Modelling count and rate data -- 19. Modelling survival data -- 20. Introduction to clustered data -- 21. Mixed models for continuous data -- 22. Mixed models for discrete data -- 23. Repeated measures data -- 24. Introduction to Bayesian analysis -- 25. Analysis of spatial data: introduction and visualisation -- 26. Analysis of spatial data -- 27. Concepts of infectious disease epidemiology -- 28. Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- 29. Ecological and group-level studies -- 30. A structured approach to data analysis -- 31. Description of datasets. |