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Essentials of Epidemiology in Public Health, Second Edition

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Paperback: 516 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2 edition (June 8, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 076374025X
ISBN-13: 978-0763740252.

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Successfully tested in the authors’ courses at Boston University and Harvard University, this text combines theory and practice in presenting traditional and new epidemiologic concepts. Broad in scope, the text opens with five chapters covering the basic epidemiologic concepts and data sources. A major emphasis is placed on study design, with separate chapters devoted to each of the three main analytic designs: experimental, cohort, and case-control studies. Full chapters on bias, confounding, and random error, including the role of statistics in epidemiology, ensure that students are well-equipped with the necessary information to interpret the results of epidemiologic studies. An entire chapter is also devoted to the concept of effect measure modification, an often-neglected topic in introductory textbooks. Up-to-date examples from the epidemiologic literature on diseases of public health importance are provided throughout the book. The second edition has been thoroughly revised with up-to-date examples and data from epidemiologic literature and features over 100 new study questions.

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Intuitive Biostatistics

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Paperback: 408 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (October 19, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0195086074
ISBN-13: 978-0195086072.

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Designed to provide a nonmathematical introduction to biostatistics for medical and health science students, graduate students in the biological sciences, physicians, and researchers, this text explains statistical principles in non-technical language and focuses on explaining the proper scientific interpretation of statistical tests rather than on the mathematical logic of the tests themselves.
Intuitive Biostatistics covers all the topics typically found in an introductory statistics text, but with the emphasis on confidence intervals rather than P values, making it easier for students to understand both. Additionally, it introduces a broad range of topics left out of most other introductory texts but used frequently in biomedical publications, including survival curves. multiple comparisons, sensitivity and specificity of lab tests, Bayesian thinking, lod scores, and logistic, proportional hazards and nonlinear regression.
By emphasizing interpretation rather than calculation, this text provides a clear and virtually painless introduction to statistical principles for those students who will need to use statistics constantly in their work. In addition, its practical approach enables readers to understand the statistical results published in biological and medical journals.

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Epidemiology for Public Health Practice

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Paperback: 712 pages
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 4 edition (March 13, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0763751618
ISBN-13: 978-0763751616.

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Epidemiologic speculations and research findings increasingly blaze across media headlines and heighten anxiety among the public. Understanding the foundations of such news can be daunting. Now in its third edition, Epidemiology for Public Health Practice has become a favorite textbook for undergraduate and graduate students new to epidemiology by providing a comprehensive look at all major topics, from study designs and descriptive epidemiology, to quantitative measures and terminology. Distinguishing itself from other texts with its accessible writing style and immediacy of information presented, the Third Edition has been extensively revised, with updated data and statistics essential to understanding the importance of epidemiology to public health.

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The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance

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Paperback: 768 pages
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics); Reprint edition (October 1, 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0140250913
ISBN-13: 978-0140250916.

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Designing Clinical Research: An Epidemiologic Approach

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third Edition edition (November 1, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0781782104
ISBN-13: 978-0781782104.

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Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology–including molecular and genetic clinical research–and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

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