ABSTRACT

Statistical ideas have been integral to the development of epidemiology and continue to provide the tools needed to interpret epidemiological studies. Although epidemiologists do not need a highly mathematical background in statistical theory to conduct and interpret such studies, they do need more than an encyclopedia of "recipes."Statistics for E

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|10 pages

Measures of Disease Occurrence

chapter 4|12 pages

Measures of Disease–Exposure Association

chapter 5|16 pages

Study Designs

chapter 6|14 pages

Assessing Significance in a 2 × 2 Table

chapter 9|24 pages

Control of Extraneous Factors

chapter 10|18 pages

Interaction

chapter 11|14 pages

Exposures at Several Discrete Levels

chapter 16|28 pages

Matched Studies

chapter 18|2 pages

Epilogue: The Examples