Epidemiology Beyond the Basics

Part1 Introduction
Chapter1 Basic Study Designs in Analytical Epidemiology
Part2 Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association
Chapter2 Measuring Disease Occurrence
Chapter3 Measuring Associations Between Exposures and Outcomes
Part3 Threats to Validity and Issues of Interpretation
Chapter4 Understanding Lack of Validity: Bias
Chapter5 Identifying Noncausal Associations: Confounding
Chapter6 Defining and Assessing Heterogeneity of Effects: Interaction
Part4 Dealing with Threats to Validity
Chapter7 Stratification and Adjustment: Multivariate Analysis in Epidemiology
Chapter8 Quality Assurance and Control
Part5 Issues of Reporting and Application of Epidemiologic Results
Chapter9 Communicating Results of Epidemiologic Studies
Chapter10 Epidemiologic Issues in the Interface with Public Health Policy
AppendixA Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing For Selected Measures of Risk and Measures of Association
AppendixB Test for Trend (Dose Responses)
AppendixC Test of Homogeneity of Stratified Estimates (Test for Interaction)
AppendixD Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures Manual for Blood Pressure Measurement and Blood/Urine Collection in the ARIC Study
AppendixE Calculation of the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient
AppendixF Exercises-Answers