TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerstman,B.Burt
TI  - Epidemiology kept simple: an introduction to traditional and modern epidemiology 
SN  - 0471400289
AV  - RA651 .G47 2003
U1  - 614.4 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Hoboken, N.J.
PB  - Wiley-Liss
KW  - Epidemiology
KW  - Epidemiologic Methods
KW  - Research Design
KW  - Statistics
KW  - methods
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Epidemiology past and present -- Disease and causal concepts -- The infectious disease process -- Screening for disease -- Case definitions and disease classification -- Incidence and prevalence -- Rate adjustment -- Measures of association and potential impact -- Types of epidemiologic studies -- Experimental studies -- Observational studies -- Types of errors in epidemiologic research -- Confidence intervals and p values -- Mantel-Haenszel methods -- Statistical interaction -- From association to causation -- Survival analysis -- Current life tables -- Random distribution of cases in time and space -- Outbreak investigation

ER  -