Preface and Acknowledgments

Contributors

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Introduction

Modern Epidemiology   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

SECTION I

BASIC CONCEPTS

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Causation and Causal Inference   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Charles Poole, and Timothy L. Lash

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Measures of Occurrence   Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman

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Measures of Effect and Measures of Association   Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash

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Concepts of Interaction   Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash

SECTION II

STUDY DESIGN AND CONDUCT

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Types of Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

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Cohort Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman and Sander Greenland

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Case-control Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

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Validity in Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

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Precision and Statistics in Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

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Design Strategies to Improve Study Accuracy   Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash

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Causal Diagrams   M. Maria Glymour and Sander Greenland

SECTION III

DATA ANALYSIS

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Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis   Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman

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Introduction to Categorical Statistics   Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman

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Introduction to Stratified Analysis   Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman

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Applications of Stratified Analysis Methods   Sander Greenland

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Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes   Sander Greenland

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Introduction to Bayesian Statistics   Sander Greenland

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Bias Analysis   Sander Greenland and Timothy L. Lash

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Introduction to Regression Models   Sander Greenland Introduction to Regression Modeling Sander Greenland

SECTION IV

SPECIAL TOPICS

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Surveillance   James W. Buehler

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Using Secondary Data   J. Olsen

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Field Methods in Epidemiology   Patricia Hartge and Jack Cahill

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Ecologic Studies Hal Morgenstern Social Epidemiology   Jay S. Kaufman

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Infectious Disease Epidemiology   C. Robert Horsburgh Jr. and Barbara E. Mahon

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Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology   Muin J. Khoury, Robert Millikan, and Marta Gwinn

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Nutritional Epidemiology   Walter C. Willett

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Environmental Epidemiology   Irva Hertz-Picciotto

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Methodologic Issues in Reproductive Epidemiology   Clarice R. Weinberg and Allen J. Wilcox

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Clinical Epidemiology   Noel S. Weiss Meta-analysis Sander Greenland and Keith O’Rourke