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- Title Pages
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Dedication to the Second Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements for the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements for the First Edition
- Permissions
- Glossary, including many of the concepts considered in this book
- Chapter 1 What is epidemiology?
- Chapter 2 The epidemiological concept of population
- Chapter 3 Variation in disease by time, place, and person
- Chapter 4 Error, bias, confounding and risk modification/interaction in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Cause and effect
- Chapter 6 Interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease
- Chapter 7 The concept of risk and fundamental measures of disease frequency
- Chapter 8 Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data on risk
- Chapter 9 Epidemiological study design and principles of data analysis
- Chapter 10 Epidemiology in the future
- References and further reading (including websites)
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Websites
- Appendix Curriculum for teaching in taught courses: suggestions
- Index
Chapter 9
Chapter 9
- Source:
- Concepts of Epidemiology
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
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- Title Pages
- Foreword to the second edition
- Foreword to the first edition
- Dedication to the Second Edition
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements for the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements for the First Edition
- Permissions
- Glossary, including many of the concepts considered in this book
- Chapter 1 What is epidemiology?
- Chapter 2 The epidemiological concept of population
- Chapter 3 Variation in disease by time, place, and person
- Chapter 4 Error, bias, confounding and risk modification/interaction in epidemiology
- Chapter 5 Cause and effect
- Chapter 6 Interrelated concepts in the epidemiology of disease
- Chapter 7 The concept of risk and fundamental measures of disease frequency
- Chapter 8 Presentation and interpretation of epidemiological data on risk
- Chapter 9 Epidemiological study design and principles of data analysis
- Chapter 10 Epidemiology in the future
- References and further reading (including websites)
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Chapter 10
- Websites
- Appendix Curriculum for teaching in taught courses: suggestions
- Index