Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Clarifies and simplifies sections on clinical trials and effect modification
Features long and short answer questions as well as multiple choice questions with extensive answers provided
Based off of new teaching points pertaining to concepts throughout the textbook (Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2nd edition) that have arisen from author's experiences teaching the course the medical students

Clarifies and simplifies sections on clinical trials and effect modification Features long and short answer questions as well as multiple choice questions with extensive answers provided Based off of new teaching points pertaining to concepts throughout the textbook (Epidemiology and Biostatistics, 2nd edition) that have arisen from author's experiences teaching the course the medical students

Auteur
Bryan KestenbaumProfessorUniversity of WashingtonDepartment of Medicine / Division of NephrologyKidney Research Institute Box 359606 325 9th AvenueSeattle, WA 98104

Contenu
Measures of disease frequency.- Population, exposure, and outcome.- Case reports and case series.- Cross-sectional studies.- Cohort studies.- Case-control studies.- Randomized trials.- Misclassification.- Confounding and its control.- Effect modification.- Screening and diagnosis.- Summary measures in statistics.- Statistical inference.- Hypothesis tests in practice.- Linear regression.- Log-link and logistic regression.- Survival analysis.