Modern Epidemiology , 4th edition (azw3+ePub+Converted PDF)

Modern Epidemiology , 4th edition (azw3+ePub+Converted PDF)

Written by Timothy L. Lash , Tyler J. VanderWeele , Sebastien Haneause and Kenneth Rothman .

Modern Epidemiology , now in its completely updated Fourth Edition , continues to be the de facto textbook in this intricate and dynamic area . Comprehensive treatment of the concepts and procedures for the planning , execution and interpretation of epidemiologic research is still offered in this version . This edition, which has a redesigned format that allows margin notes .

• Reflects the conceptual growth of this dynamic subject as well as the growing contribution of epidemiology to the advancement of public health and medicine .

• Offers fresh perspectives on techniques like causal modeling , mediation analysis, quasi-experimental designs and agent-based modeling .

• Revises the explanation of techniques like interaction concepts, bias analysis and time-varying designs and analysis .

• Keeps covering the entire range of epidemiologic concepts and methodologies , such as study designs , field methods , surveillance , ecologic designs , statistical interference , validity , precision and epidemiologic measures of occurrence and effect .

• Covers a wide range of contemporary regression techniques , including logistic and survival regression , splines , longitudinal and cluster-correlated/hierarchical data analysis , propensity scores and other scoring techniques and marginal structural models .

Data analysis topics include Bayesian analysis , probabilistic bias analysis and time-to-event analysis . Among the topics covered are social epidemiology , infectious disease epidemiology , genetic and molecular epidemiology , psychiatric epidemiology , injury and violence epidemiology and pharmacoepidemiology . It also summarizes the history , specialized aspects and future directions of these fields .

See also : Janeways Immunobiology , 10th edition (ePub+Converted PDF)