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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thrusfield, M. V.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Blackwell, 2007.
Edition:Third edition updates 2007.
Subjects:
Veterinary epidemiology.
Communicable diseases in animals.
Epidemiologic Methods > veterinary.
Animal Diseases > epidemiology.
Epidemiology.
Veterinary Medicine.
Table of Contents:
  • The development of veterinary medicine
  • The scope of epidemiology
  • Causality
  • Describing disease occurrence
  • Determinants of disease
  • The transmission and maintenance of infection
  • The ecology of disease
  • Patterns of disease
  • The nature of data
  • Surveillance
  • Data collection and management
  • Presenting numerical data
  • Surveys
  • Demonstrating association
  • Observational studies
  • Clinical trials
  • Diagnostic testing
  • Comparative epidemiology
  • Modelling
  • The economics of animal disease
  • Health schemes
  • The control and eradication of disease
  • Appendices : Glossary of terms
  • Basic methematical notation and terms
  • Some computer software
  • Veterinary epidemiology on the internet
  • Studen's t-distribution
  • Multipliers used in the construction of confidence intervals based on the normal distribution, for selected levels of confidence
  • Values of exact 95% confidence limits for proportions
  • Values for the Poisson distribution for calculating 90%, 954% and 99% confidence interfals for observed numbers from 0 to 100
  • The x²-distribution
  • Techniques for selecting a simple random sample sizes
  • The probability of failure to detect cases in a population
  • Sample sized required for detecting disease with probability, p₁, and threshold number of positives (in brackets) (probability of incorrectly concluding that a healthy population is diseased [in square brackets])
  • Probabilities associated iwth the upper tail of the normal distribution
  • Lower- and upper-tail probabilities for W₂, the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank-sum statistic
  • Critical values of T+ for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test
  • Values for K for calcuting 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two independent samples
  • Values of K* for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two related samples
  • Common logarithms (log₁₀) of factorials of the integers 1-999
  • The correlation coefficient
  • Some veterinary observational studies
  • The variance-ratio (F) distribution
  • Risk analysis