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Veterinary epidemiologic research /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dohoo, Ian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottetown, P.E.I. : AVC Inc., 2003.
Subjects:
Veterinary Medicine.
Animal Diseases > epidemiology.
Epidemiology.
Epidemiologic Methods > veterinary.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and casual concepts
  • Sampling
  • Questionnaire design
  • Measures of disease frequency
  • Screening and diagnostic tests
  • Measures of association
  • Introduction to observational studies
  • Cohort studies
  • Case-control studies
  • Hybrid study designs
  • Controlled trials
  • Validity in observational studies
  • Confounder bias : analytic control and matching
  • Linear regression
  • Model-building strategies
  • Logistic regression
  • Modelling multinominal data
  • Modelling count and rate data
  • Modelling survival data
  • Introduction to clustered data
  • Mixed models for continuous data
  • Mixed models for discrete data
  • Alternative approaches to dealing with clustered data
  • Meta-analysis
  • Ecologic and group-level studies
  • A structured approach to data analysis
  • Description of datasets
  • Program files