| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 367 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The aim of this book""; ""How to use this book""; ""A. Basic Concepts and Procedures""; ""A1. Introduction""; ""A2. Determining what the facts are""; ""Summarizing the facts""; ""A3. Absolute and relative differences""; ""A4. Diagrams""; ""A5. Seeking explanations for the facts""; ""Testing explanations""; ""A6. The basic scientific process""; ""Rates""; ""A7. Rates (continued)""; ""Inspecting a two-dimensional table""; ""A8. Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued)""; ""A9. Inspecting a two-dimensional table (continued)""; ""Associations"" |
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""A10. Associations (continued)""""Confounding""; ""A11. Confounding (continued)""; ""Effect modification""; ""A12. Refinement""; ""Skeleton tables""; ""Elaborating an association""; ""A13. Modifying and confounding effects""; ""A14. Elaborating an association (continued)""; ""A15. The use of rates""; ""Causal explanations""; ""Testing causal explanations""; ""A16. Testing causal explanations (continued)""; ""Basic procedure for appraisal of data""; ""A17. Uses of epidemiological data""; ""A18. TEST YOURSELF (A)""; ""B. Rates and Other Measures""; ""B1. Introduction""; ""What is a rate?"" |
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""Prevalence rates""""B2. Prevalence rates (continued)""; ""B3. Questions about a rate""; ""What kind of rate is it?""; ""Of what is it a rate?""; ""To what population or group does the rate refer?""; ""How was the information obtained?""; ""B4. Sources of bias""; ""Confidence interval""; ""Validity""; ""Qualitative studies""; ""B5. Use of prevalence data""; ""Incidence rates""; ""B6. Incidence rates (continued)""; ""B7. Bias in incidence studies""; ""B8. Uses of incidence rates""; ""B9. Estimating the individual's chances""; ""Time to event (survival time)"" |
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""B10. Estimating the individual's chances (continued)""""Other rates""; ""What are the odds?""; ""B11. Other rates (continued)""; ""Odds ratio""; ""B12. Other measures""; ""B13. Indirect standardization""; ""B14. Indirect standardization (continued)""; ""Direct standardization""; ""B15. The use of standardized rates""; ""B16. TEST YOURSELF (B)""; ""C. How Good Are the Measures?""; ""C1. Introduction""; ""C2. Validity of a measure""; ""Sensitivity and specificity""; ""C3. Misclassification""; ""C4. Differential misclassification""; ""C5. Effects of misclassification"" |
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""C6. Effects of misclassification (continued)""""C7. Other ways of appraising validity""; ""Reliability""; ""C8. Appraisal of reliability""; ""C9. Appraisal of reliability (continued)""; ""Regression toward the mean""; ""Taking account of validity and reliability""; ""Screening tests""; ""C10. Appraisal of a screening test""; ""C11. Appraisal of a screening test (continued)""; ""C12. Appraisal of diagnostic tests""; ""ROC curves""; ""The meaning of ""normal""""; ""C13. TEST YOURSELF (C)""; ""D. Making Sense of Associations""; ""D1. Introduction""; ""D2. Explanations for an association"" |
| Summary |
This is a self-instructed manual on the interpretation and use of epidemiologic data that deal with the basic concepts and skills needed for appraising published reports or study findings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Epidemiology -- Statistical methods
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Epidemiology -- Statistical methods -- Problems, exercises, etc
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Epidemiologic Methods
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Data Interpretation, Statistical
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Epidemiology -- Statistical methods
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| Genre/Form |
programmed textbooks.
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Programmed instructional materials
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Problems and exercises
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Programmed instructional materials.
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Matériel d'enseignement programmé.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Abramson, Z. H
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| ISBN |
9780199864775 |
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0199864772 |
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