Lash, Timothy L.

Modern epidemiology / Timothy L. Lash. - 4th edition. - 1 online resource (1786 pages)

Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- PART I Foundations -- 1 The Scope of Epidemiology -- 2 Causal Inference and Scientific Reasoning -- 3 Formal Causal Models -- 4 Measures of Occurrence -- 5 Measures of Effect and Measures of Association -- 6 Epidemiologic Study Design With Validity and Efficiency Considerations -- PART II Study Design and Interpretation -- 7 Cohort Studies -- 8 Case-­Control Studies -- 9 Public Health Surveillance -- 10 Field Methods -- 11 Studies Relying on Secondary Data -- 12 Confounding and Confounders -- 13 Measurement and Measurement Error -- 14 Selection Bias and Generalizability -- 15 Precision and Study Size -- PART III Data Analysis -- 16 Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis -- 17 Introduction to Categorical Statistics -- 18 Stratification and Standardization -- 19 Categorical Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes -- 20 Regression Analysis Part I: Model Specification -- 21 Regression Analysis Part II: Model Fitting and Assessment -- 22 Time-­To-­Event Analysis -- 23 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics -- 24 Longitudinal and Cluster-­Correlated Data Analysis -- 25 Causal Inference With Time-­Varying Exposures -- 26 Analysis of Interaction -- 27 Mediation Analysis -- 28 Instrumental Variables and Quasi-­Experimental Approaches -- 29 Bias Analysis -- 30 Ecologic Studies and Analysis -- 31 Agent-­Based Modeling -- PART IV Special Topics -- 32 Infectious Disease Epidemiology -- 33 Reproductive Epidemiology -- 34 Psychiatric Epidemiology -- 35 Clinical Epidemiology -- 36 Molecular Epidemiology -- 37 Genetic Epidemiology -- 38 Injury and Violence Epidemiology -- 39 Social Epidemiology -- 40 Environmental Epidemiology -- 41 Occupational Epidemiology -- 42 Nutritional Epidemiology -- 43 Pharmacoepidemiology -- Index.

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