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Epidemiologic Methods

The Essentials

  • 1st Edition - November 15, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Stephen C. Newman
  • Language: English

Epidemiologic Methods: The Essentials is a concise, but thorough volume that provides a solid grounding in core methodologic issues. The book takes a streamlined approach on cohort… Read more

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Description

Epidemiologic Methods: The Essentials is a concise, but thorough volume that provides a solid grounding in core methodologic issues. The book takes a streamlined approach on cohort studies, case-control studies, prevalence studies, randomized trials, demographic studies of morbidity and mortality, ecologic studies, screening, effect modification, bias and confounding. Organized according to study design, with each chapter building on those preceding it, the book provides detailed examples throughout, using data tables and graphs to reinforce methodologic points.

Key features

  • Focuses on the core topics of epidemiologic methods
  • Presented in a logical sequence, with each chapter building on those that precede it
  • Contains detailed examples, based on both published and hypothetical studies
  • Mathematical details relegated to appendices

Readership

Students in Public Health, fellows, residents, and faculty in all medical disciplines interested in clinical, epidemiological and basic research, Anyone involved in clinical trials, government agencies responsible for monitoring population health

Table of contents

1. Classic Studies in Epidemiology

2. Preliminaries

3. Prevalence Studies

4. Cohort Studies

5. Populations

6. Effect Modification in Cohort Studies

7. Standardization in Cohort Studies

8. Confounding in Cohort Studies – Part I

9. Confounding in Cohort Studies – Part II

10. Bias in Cohort Studies

11. Randomized Trials

12. Case-Control Studies – Part I

13. Case-Control Studies – Part II

14. Ecologic Studies

15. Screening in Populations

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 17, 2022
  • Language: English

About the author

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Stephen C. Newman

Dr. Stephen Newman is Emeritus Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. His primary appointment was in the Department of Psychiatry, with a cross-appointment in what is now the School of Public Health, where he taught courses on advanced epidemiologic methods and biostatistics. His research was in the areas of community-based psychiatric epidemiology and epidemiologic methodology. He has published three books, all with John Wiley & Sons. Biostatistical Methods in Epidemiology, published in 2001, is an advanced undergraduate or graduate text on the core biostatistical methods used by epidemiologists. A Classical Introduction to Galois Theory, published in 2012, is an undergraduate text on a profoundly beautiful topic in modern algebra. Semi-Riemannian Geometry, published in 2019, is an advanced undergraduate or graduate text on the mathematics underlying the theory of relativity.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

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