Modern epidemiology / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash.

2nd ed. edited by Kenneth J. Rothman and Sander Greenland.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 683-732) and index.

Introduction / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Section I: Basic concepts -- Causation and causal inference / Kenneth J. Rothman ... [et al.] -- Measures of occurrence / Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman -- Measures of effect and measures of association / Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash -- Concepts of interaction / Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman --

Section II: Study design and conduct -- Types of epidemiologic studies / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Cohort studies / Kenneth J. Rothman and Sander Greenland -- Case-control studies / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Validity in epidemiologic studies / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Precision and statistics in epidemiologic studies / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Design strategies to improve study accuracy / Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash -- Causal diagrams / M. Maria Glymour and Sander Greenland --

Section III: Data analysis -- Fundamentals of epidemiologic data analysis / Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman -- Introduction to categorical statistics / Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman -- Introduction to stratified analysis / Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman -- Applications of stratified analysis methods / Sander Greenland -- Analysis of polytomous exposures and outcomes / Sander Greenland -- Introduction to bayesian statistics / Sander Greenland -- Bias analysis / Sander Greenland and Timothy L. Lash -- Introduction to regression models / Sander Greenland -- Introduction to regression modeling / Sander Greenland --

Section IV: Special topics -- Surveillance / James W. Buehler -- Using secondary data / Jørn Olsen -- Field methods in epidemiology / Patricia Hartge and Jack Cahill -- Ecologic studies / Hal Morgenstern -- Social epidemiology / Jay S. Kaufman -- Infectious disease epidemiology / C. Robert Horsburgh, Jr., and Barbara E. Mahon -- Genetic and molecular epidemiology / Muin J. Khoury, Robert Millikan, and Marta Gwinn -- Nutritional epidemiology / Walter C. Willett -- Environmental epidemiology / Irva Hertz-Picciotto -- Methodologic issues in reproductive epidemiology / Clarice R. Weinberg and Allen J. Wilcox -- Clinical epidemiology / Noel S. Weiss -- Meta-analysis / Sander Greenland and Keith O'Rourke.