(PDF) Epidemiology – Beyond the Basics 4th Edition by by Moyses Szklo

This is the PDF eBook version for Epidemiology – Beyond the Basics 4th Edition by by Moyses Szklo, F. Javier Nieto

Table of Contents

Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Basic Study Designs in Analytical Epidemiology
Part 2 Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association
Chapter 2 Measuring Disease Occurrence
Chapter 3 Measuring Associations Between Exposures and Outcomes
Part 3 Threats to Validity and Issue s of Interpretation
Chapter 4 Understanding Lack of Validity: Bias
Chapter 5 Identifying Noncausal Associations: Confounding
Chapter 6 Defining and Assessing Heterogeneity of Effects: Interaction
Part 4 Dealing with Threats to Validity
Chapter 7 Stratification and Adjustment: Multivariate Analysis in Epidemiology
Chapter 8 Quality Assurance and Control
Part 5 Issue s of Reporting and Application of Epidemiologic Results
Chapter 9 Communicating Results of Epidemiologic Studies
Chapter 10 Epidemiologic Issue s in the Interface with Public Health Policy
Appendix A Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing For Selected Measures of Risk and Measures of Association
Appendix B Test for Trend (Dose Responses)
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
Appendix F Exercises-Answers