"Originally published by Aspen Publishers, c2000"--T. p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Basic study designs in analytical epidemiology -- Introduction:
descriptive and analytical epidemiology -- Analysis of age, birth
cohort, and period effects -- Ecologic studies -- Studies based on
individuals as observation units -- Measuring disease occurrence --
Introduction: basic elements of epidemiologic inference; defining and
counting disease outcomes -- Measures of incidence -- Measures of
prevalence -- Odds -- Measuring associations between exposures and
outcomes -- Introduction -- Measuring associations in a cohort study
-- Cross-sectional studies: point prevalence rate ratio -- Measuring
associations in case-control studies --Assessing the strength of
associations -- Threats to validity and issues of interpretation --
Understanding lack of validity: bias overview -- Selection bias --
Information bias -- Combined selection/information biases -- Biases
in reporting study results: publication bias -- Identifying noncausal
associations: confounding -- Introduction -- The nature of the
association between the confounder, the exposure, and the outcome --
Assessing the presence of confounding -- Additional issues related to
confounding -- Conclusion -- Defining and assessing heterogeneity of
effects: interaction -- Introduction -- How is effect measured? --
Strategies to evaluate interaction -- Assessment of interaction in
case-control studies -- More on the interchangeability of the
definitions of interaction -- Which is the relevant model: additive
versus multiplicative interaction? -- The nature and reciprocity of
interaction -- Interaction, confounding effect, and adjustment --
Statistical modeling and statistical tests for interaction --
Interpreting interaction -- Interaction and search for new risk
factors in low-risk groups -- Interaction and "representativeness" of
associations -- Dealing with threats to validity -- Stratification
and adjustment: multivariate analysis in epidemiology -- Introduction
-- Stratification and adjustment techniques to disentangle
confounding -- Adjustment methods based on stratification -- Multiple
regression techniques for adjustment -- Incomplete adjustment:
residual confounding -- Overadjustment -- Conclusion -- Quality
assurance and control -- Introduction -- Quality assurance -- Quality
control -- Indices of validity and reliability -- Regression to the
mean -- Issues of reporting -- Communicating results of epidemiologic
studies -- Introduction -- What to report -- How to report --
Conclusion -- Appendix A: standard errors, confidence intervals and
hypothesis testing for selected measures of risk and measures of
association -- Appendix B: test for trend (dose response) -- Appendix
C: test of homogeneity of stratified estimates (test for interaction)
-- Appendix D: quality assurance and quality control procedures
manual for blood pressure measurement and blood/urine collection in
the ARIC study -- Appendix E: calculation of the intraclass
correlation coefficient.
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