Statistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data
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Book Description
This book combines applied and theoretical approaches to the analysis of epidemiologic issues. It goes beyond elementary material to deal with real problems generated by disease data, and delves into less usual areas such as the analysis of spatial distributions, survival data, proportional
hazards regression, and "computer-intensive" approaches to statistical estimation. Each method discussed in the text is illustrated with examples which include complete sets of data. Using actual data demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of different analytic approaches in describing a
disease process. The goal of the book is to allow the reader to develop a clear understanding of analytic approaches to problems in epidemiologic data analysis without relying on sophisticated mathematics and advanced statistical theory. For the Second Edition a new chapter on the analysis of
matched data has been added. This covers both discrete and continuous outcomes and explains both the classic analytic approach and the conditional logistic regression model. New sections have also been added on contingency table data, misclassification, and additive models underlying tabular data.
In all the chapters there are new applications and other revisions that make this Second Edition a clearer and more helpful exposition of the way statistical tools are used to analyze epidemiologic data.
Book Info
University of California, Berkeley. Second edition of a text on applied and theoretical approaches to the analysis of epidemiological issues. Previous edition 1991. New chapter on analyzing matched data. For those with background in epidemiology and statistics.
Statistical Analysis of Epidemiologic Data,Steve Selvin,Oxford University Press, USA,0195097602,Biostatistics,Epidemiology,Health/Fitness,Life Sciences - Biology - General,Science,Statistical methods,Epidemiology & medical statistics,Medical / Epidemiology,Medicine | Epidemiology & Biostatistics
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