Epidemilogy in medicine

Fereword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Definition and background

Design strategies in epidemilogic research

Statiscal association and cause-effect relationships

Measures of disease frequency and association

Descriptive studies

Case-control studies

Cohort studies

Intervention studies

Description and analysis of epidemiologic data

Presentation and summarization of data

Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of chance

Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role of bias

Analysis of epidemiologic studies: evaluating the role or confounding

Epidemiology in disease control

Screening

Appendixes:

Standard statistical tables

Selection of an appropriate test of statistical significance

Answers to stydy questions

Index

Inglés