Modern Epidemiology

by Timothy L. Lash, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Sebastien Haneause, Kenneth Rothman

Overview

Now in a fully revised Fourth Edition, Modern Epidemiology remains the gold standard text in this complex and evolving field. This edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of the principles and methods for the design, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic research. Featuring a new format allowing space for margin notes, this edition • Reflects both the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasing role that epidemiology plays in improving public health and medicine. • Features new coverage of methods such as agent-based modeling, quasi-experimental designs, mediation analysis, and causal modeling. • Updates coverage of methods such as concepts of interaction, bias analysis, and time-varying designs and analysis. • Continues to cover the full breadth of epidemiologic methods and concepts, including epidemiologic measures of occurrence and effect, study designs, validity, precision, statistical interference, field methods, surveillance, ecologic designs, and use of secondary data sources. • Includes data analysis topics such as Bayesian analysis, probabilistic bias analysis, time-to-event analysis, and an extensive overview of modern regression methods including logistic and survival regression, splines, longitudinal and cluster-correlated/hierarchical data analysis, propensity scores and other scoring methods, and marginal structural models. • Summarizes the history, specialized aspects, and future directions of topical areas, including among others social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, injury and violence epidemiology, and pharmacoepidemiology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781975166281
Publisher:	Wolters Kluwer Health
Publication date:	12/11/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1192
File size:	35 MB
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About the Author

Rothman, Kenneth J. (Boston Univ); Greenland, Sander (UCLA)

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments     vii
Contributors     ix
Introduction   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     1
Basic Concepts
Causation and Causal Inference   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Charles Poole   Timothy L. Lash     5
Measures of Occurrence   Sander Greenland   Kenneth J. Rothman     32
Measures of Effect and Measures of Association   Sander Greenland   Kenneth J. Rothman   Timothy L. Lash     51
Concepts of Interaction   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash   Kenneth J. Rothman     71
Study Design and Conduct
Types of Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     87
Cohort Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland     100
Case-Control Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     111
Validity in Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     128
Precision and Statistics in Epidemiologic Studies   Kenneth J. Rothman   SanderGreenland   Timothy L. Lash     148
Design Strategies to Improve Study Accuracy   Kenneth J. Rothman   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     168
Causal Diagrams   M. Maria Glymour   Sander Greenland     183
Data Analysis
Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis   Sander Greenland   Kenneth J. Rothman     213
Introduction to Categorical Statistics   Sander Greenland   Kenneth J. Rothman     238
Introduction to Stratified Analysis   Sander Greenland   Kenneth J. Rothman     258
Applications of Stratified Analysis Methods   Sander Greenland     283
Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes   Sander Greenland     303
Introduction to Bayesian Statistics   Sander Greenland     328
Bias Analysis   Sander Greenland   Timothy L. Lash     345
Introduction to Regression Models   Sander Greenland     381
Introduction to Regression Modeling   Sander Greenland     418
Special Topics
Surveillance   James W. Buehler     459
Using Secondary Data   Jorn Olsen     481
Field Methods in Epidemiology    Patricia Hartge   Jack Cahill     492
Ecologic Studies   Hal Morgenstern     511
Social Epidemiology   Jay S. Kaufman     532
Infectious Disease Epidemiology   C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr.   Barbara E. Mahon     549
Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology   Muin J. Khoury   Robert Millikan   Marta Gwinn     564
Nutritional Epidemiology   Walter C. Willett     580
Environmental Epidemiology   Irva Hertz-Picciotto     598
Methodologic Issues in Reproductive Epidemiology   Clarice R. Weinberg   Allen J. Wilcox     620
Clinical Epidemiology   Noel S. Weiss     641
Meta-Analysis   Sander Greenland   Keith O'Rourke     652
References     683
Index     733

Editorial Reviews

3 Stars from Doody

Epidemiology has become an essential tool for both public health professionals and clinical practitioners. As a result, there has been a plethora of introductory and basic texts on the subject targeted to students and others seeking only a simple understanding of its basic concepts. This book presents the field in a broader and more comprehensive context. The basics are still provided, but not in a manner that facilitates learning through practicing the skills. Its primary intent is to serve as a resource and reference for the more serious practitioners of epidemiology, including researchers in public health and clinical sciences. Epidemiologists in public and private settings, researchers involved in both observational and experimental inquiry, and graduate level students in epidemiology and biostatistics will find this work of value. Less serious audiences will miss the usual practice problems and exercises usually found in the more basic epidemiology texts. The book's features are unremarkable. There is appropriate use of tables, graphs, and charts, although somewhat less frequent than one might expect. A unique aspect of this book is its comprehensiveness, with virtually all important topics covered in its 700-plus pages. This book will serve well as a resource and reference for epidemiologists and researchers. It is not the kind of book that a novice can pick up and digest easily. However, it very competently covers the field and its major applications in the 1990s by providing consistent threads and themes throughout its presentation of concepts and methods. This would be a solid addition to health science libraries in university and other research settings.

Bernard J. Turnock