Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) - Hardcover

Mark Woodward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1584880090 ISBN 13: 9781584880097

Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1999

Synopsis

Epidemiology is a subject of growing importance, as witnessed by its role in the description and prediction of the impact of new diseases such as AIDS and new-variant CJD. Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis covers the whole spectrum of standard analytical techniques used in epidemiology, from descriptive techniques in report writing to model diagnostics from generalized linear models. The author discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives to case-control, cohort and intervention studies and details such crucial concepts as incidence, prevalence, confounding and interaction. Many exercises are provided, based on real epidemiological data sets collected from all over the world. The data sets are also available on an associated web site. Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis will be an invaluable textbook for statistics and medical students studying epidemiology, and a standard reference for practicing epidemiologists.

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Review

"As a text in quantitative Epidemiology, this book also works nicely as a text in BiostatisticsThe presentation style is relaxed, the examples are helpful, and the level of technical difficulty makes the material approachable without oversimplificationIt is sufficiently broad and deep in coverage to compete with standard texts in the field and has the added bonus of emphasizing study design. Methods and issues related to designs commonly used in a wide variety of health sciences are included" Ken Hess, Department of Biomathematics and Biostatistics, Anderson Cancer Center "I think anyone with an interest in both biostatistics and epidemiology will want a copy this book on their bookshelf it is a first-rate reference book." "I find Professor Woodward's text the most complete and practical introduction to the design and analysis of epidemiological studies I've encountered an excellent text for either a course introducing epidemiologists to statistical thought and methods or a course introducing statisticians to epidemiological thought and methods students appreciate having a readable textbook replete with understandable examples and worked exercises"" offers a complete introduction to statistical and epidemiological methods in the study of disease in human populations. All of the standard topics are included, and the second edition even has a chapter on meta-analysis." "This book can be used as a text to introduce epidemiological methods to graduate students in statistics who have no background in epidemiology, or vice versa" "Professor Woodward is to be congratulated on a job well done." -Dan McGee, Dept of Statistics, Florida State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1584880090
• ISBN 13: 9781584880097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 728