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Can I read Epidemiology : Study Design and Data Analysis on EtoBox?
Epidemiology : Study Design and Data Analysis by Mark Woodward is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Epidemiology : Study Design and Data Analysis about?
Epidemiology is a subject of growing importance, as witnessed by its role in the description and prediction of the impact of new diseases such as AIDS and new-variant CJD.Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis covers the whole spectrum of standard analytical techniques used in epidemiology, from descriptive techniques in report writing to model diagnostics from generalized linear models. The author discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives to case-control, cohort and intervention studies and details such crucial concepts as incidence, prevalence, confounding and interaction. Many exercises are provided, based on real epidemiological data sets collected from all over the world. The data sets are also available on an associated web site. Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis will be an invaluable textbook for statistics and medical students studying epidemiology, and a standard reference for practicing epidemiologists.
Who reads Epidemiology : Study Design and Data Analysis?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Mark Woodward
- Publisher
- Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781584880097
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Science, Nursing
