Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Biostatistics (includes Online Access Code)

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Overview

Instructor Resources: Instructor's Manual, PowerPoints, TestBank

All new copies of this text include an access code card that will give your students entrée to a companion website that offers a complete package interactive learning materials including flashcards, matching exercises, glossary, and more.

This book will familiarize your students with basic principles of epidemiology and biostatistics. Designed for use in a single course, it will clarify the distinction and complementary roles of epidemiology and biostatistics in a range of settings, and train students on the complementary roles epidemiology and biostatistics play in carrying out selected activities in the health professions.  After completing this book, the student should be able to:

• Describe epidemiological methods and study designs
• Select appropriate methodologies for epidemiological investigation
• Use the epidemiological process to address health care problems
• Evaluate environmental epidemiology and population surveillance
• Describe epidemiological measures of health
• Distinguish the roles and relationships between epidemiology and statistics
• Combine appropriate epidemiological concepts and statistical measures
• Calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities of health-related events

Table of Contents

About the Author  
Preface  
  Chapter  1  Introduction
  Chapter  2  Data and Descriptive Measures
  Chapter  3  Standardizing Rates
  Chapter  4  Describing Data with Graphs
  Chapter  5  Life Tables
  Chapter  6  Probability
  Chapter  7  Random Variables and Probability Distributions
  Chapter  8  Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
  Chapter  9  Sample Size
  Chapter  10  Study Designs
  Chapter  11  Statistical Measures of Association among Variables
  Chapter  12  Experimental Studies
  Chapter  13  Survival Analysis
  Chapter  14  Cause and Effect
Appendix  A  SAS Procedure Code
Appendix  B  Tables
Appendix  C  Model Building
Appendix  D  Answers to Exercises