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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Handbooks and manuals Problems and exercises Handbooks, manuals, etc Problems, exercises, etc Guides, manuels, etc Problèmes et exercices |
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Additional Physical Format: | (DLC) 2006933294 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David G Kleinbaum; Kevin M Sullivan; Nancy D Barker |
ISBN: | 9780387459646 0387459642 6611336753 9786611336752 |
OCLC Number: | 1264822509 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. UK : MyiLibrary, 2008. |
Description: | 281 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Ch. 1. pocket-size introduction -- Ch. 2. big picture -- with examples -- Ch. 3. How to set things up? : study designs -- Ch. 4. How often does it happen? : disease frequency -- Ch. 5. What's the answer? : measures of effect -- Ch. 6. What is the public health impact? -- Ch. 7. Is there something wrong? : validity & bias -- Ch. 8. Were subjects chosen badly? : selection bias -- Ch. 9. Are the data correct? : information bias -- Ch. 10. Other factors accounted for? : confounding interaction -- Ch. 11. Confounding can be counfounding -- several risk factors -- Ch. 12. Simple analyses -- 2x2 tables are not that simple -- Ch. 13. Control -- what it's all about -- Ch. 14. How to deal with lots of tables -- stratified analysis -- Ch. 15. Matching -- seems easy, but not that easy. |
Responsibility: | David G. Kleinbaum, Kevin Sullivan, Nancy Barker. |
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