Table of Contents
Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Contributors
PART I Foundations 1. The Scope of Epidemiology 2. Causal Inference and Scientific Reasoning 3. Formal Causal Models 4. Measures of Occurrence 5. Measures of Effect and Measures of Association 6. Epidemiologic Study Design With Validity and Efficiency Considerations
PART II Study Design and Interpretation 7. Cohort Studies 8. Case-Control Studies 9. Public Health Surveillance 10. Field Methods 11. Studies Relying on Secondary Data 12. Confounding and Confounders 13. Measurement and Measurement Error 14. Selection Bias and Generalizability 15. Precision and Study Size
PART III Data Analysis 16. Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis 17. Introduction to Categorical Statistics 18. Stratification and Standardization