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  title info:
    title: Epidemiology
    sub title: beyond the basics
  name:
    name part: Szklo, M. (Moyses)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Nieto, F. Javier.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 495 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  table of contents: 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
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Moyses Szklo, F. Javier Nieto.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiologic Methods
  subject:
    topic: Epidemiology
  classification: RA651 .S97 2004
  classification: 614.4
  classification: 2004 E-732
  classification: WA 950 M998e 2004
  classification: WA 950 S998e 2004
  identifier: 076374722X
  identifier: 2003023445
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    record content source: DNLM/DLC
    record creation date: 031023
    record change date: 20191203131200.0
    record identifier: in00004497700