Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods

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Mitchell H. Gail, Jacques Benichou
John Wiley & Sons, 2 lis 2000 - 1000
Featuring articles from the prestigious Encyclopedia of Biostatistics, many of which have been revised and updated to include recent developments, the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods also includes newly commissioned articles reflecting the latest thinking in
  • Cancer Registries
  • Birth Defect Registries
  • Meta Analysis of Epidemiologic Studies
  • Epidemiology Overview
  • Sample Size
  • Sex Ratio at Birth
  • Software Design and Analysis

Featuring contributions from leading experts in academia, government and industry, the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods has been designed to complement existing texts on the subject by providing further extensive, up-to-date coverage of specialised topics and by introducing the reader to the research literature.

Offering a wealth of information in a single resource, the Encyclopedia of Epidemiologic Methods

  • Offers an excellent introduction to a vast array of specialised topics
  • Includes in-depth coverage of the statistical underpinnings of contemporary epidemiologic methods
  • Provides concise definitions and introductions to numerous concepts found in the current literature
  • Uses extensive cross-references, helping to facilitate further research, and enabling the reader to locate definitions and related concepts

In addition to featuring extensive articles in the areas of descriptive and analytic epidemiology, the Encyclopedia also provides the reader with articles on case-control design and offers substantial coverage of allied statistical methods.

 

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Absolute Risk
1
215
45
BackCalculation
65
Bias from Nonresponse
83
Density Sampling
300
759
336
Epidemic Models Stochastic
366
631
395
Geographic Patterns of Disease
669
Hazard Rate
700
Kappa
736
771
741
Sample Size for Epidemiologic Studies
777
Scan Statistics for Disease Surveillance
813
Sex Ratio at Birth
848
Lexis Diagram
892

640
441
Frequency Matching
527
CaseControl Study
584

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Mithcell Gail is a Fellow and former President of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.

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