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Family matters: Designing, analysing and understanding family based studies in life course epidemiology (A Life Course Approach to Adult Health) by Deborah A. Lawlor; Gita D. Mishra is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Family-based studies, including intergenerational, sibling, and twin studies, are increasingly being used to explore life course epidemiology. However, there are issues relating to study design and the statistical analysis of family-based studies that are still not well understood, and comprehending the underlying assumptions of these studies and drawing the inferences from them can be complex. This book provides the knowledge and skills required to design, analyse, and correctly interpret family-based studies. It explains what these studies can tell us about life course epidemiology; provides practical guidance on how to set-up and maintain birth cohorts for completing family-based studies in life course epidemiology; describes how to undertake appropriate statistical analyses of family-based studies and correctly interpret results from these analyses; and provides examples that illustrate the ways in which family-based studies can enhance our understanding of life course epidemiology. In addition, there is discussion of difficulties specific to setting up such studies in low- and middle-income countries, and issues relating to proxy informants, where parents provide information o

Author

Deborah A. Lawlor; Gita D. Mishra

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199231034

Subjects

Medical, Medicine