Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis [Hardcover]

M. Woodward (Author), Mark Woodward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 25, 1999 | ISBN-10: 1584880090 | ISBN-13: 978-1584880097

Epidemiology is a subject of growing importance, as witnessed by its role in the description and prediction of the impact of new diseases such as AIDS and new-variant CJD.

Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis covers the whole spectrum of standard analytical techniques used in epidemiology, from descriptive techniques in report writing to model diagnostics from generalized linear models.

The author discusses the advantages, disadvantages, and alternatives to case-control, cohort and intervention studies and details such crucial concepts as incidence, prevalence, confounding and interaction. Many exercises are provided, based on real epidemiological data sets collected from all over the world. The data sets are also available on an associated web site. Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis will be an invaluable textbook for statistics and medical students studying epidemiology, and a standard reference for practicing epidemiologists.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 728 pages
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC (May 25, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1584880090
• ISBN-13: 978-1584880097
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,705,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars thorough coverage of statistical methods used in epidemiology, August 31, 2008

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Michael R. Chernick "statman31147" (Holland PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) (Hardcover)

This second edition is a massive text of over 800 pages that covers thoroughly the various study designs and statistical analysis methods used in Epidemiology. I have not seen the first edition so if you are interested in contrasting it with the first edition, the back cover gives a summary of the subjects that are added. This is a very practical book that avoids advanced mathematics and proofs and concentrates on basic math and practical results. Real data is used in the examples including the Scottish Heart Health Study data. The final chapter covers the important issues in meta-analyses.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent pres. of epi & data-analysis -mostly for students, January 9, 2004

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This review is from: Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis (Hardcover)

This book can both be used as a first time introduction to epidemiology and the most popular statistical methods employed in health research, but also for looking up things when you need it, since it is actually quite thorough on a lot of subjects in the field. This is, however, not the best thing about the book.
The best thing about it is that it is very well-written - neither too complicated and unstructured, or too common-sense to the point where you get annoyed because the author never gets to the point. I'm sure that some readers will be find that Woodward has spend to many pages on the statistical part - at least if they expect to find a pure epidemiology-textbook - but the data analysis part is also very well-written and quite comprehensible. So even if you're not planning on spending the rest of your life with data analysis, this book can provide you wih an understanding of this part of epidemiological research as well, which will make the understanding of the field as a whole much better.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good and quite complete, September 5, 2007

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Frederico M. Cohrs (Sao Paulo, SP Brazil) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Epidemiology: Study Design and Data Analysis, Second Edition (Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science) (Hardcover)

This is realy a good book and quite complete. Some issues are out, but probably could come in an advanced release.

Text are easy and smooth.