Biostatistics and Epidemiology / Heather M. Bush, Caroline A. Macera, Richard Shaffer and Peggy M. Shaffer

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CHAPTER 1. An overview of statistical concepts -- 2. Continuous Data: Making Comparisons -- 3. Continuous Data: Correlation and regression -- 4. Categorical Data: Comparison and associations -- 5. A Dichotomous outcome: Confounding & Regression -- 6. Introduction to Epidemiology -- 7. Fundamentals of Epidemiology -- 8. Measuring disease Occurrence and exposure -- 9. Data Sources -- 10. Study Design -- 11. Using Rates and Ratios -- 12. Accuracy -- 13. Infectious Diseases -- 14. Outbreak Investigations -- 15. The Practice of epidemiology in developing countries.

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