Modern Epidemiology, Fourth Edition provides a complete desk reference of the methods of modern epidemiology, with contributions from the 4 authors plus 35 leading experts from various subfields. Intended as a sort of encyclopedia, the text has broad coverage of introductory and advanced epidemiological methods with discussions that are clear and concise.
The fourth edition includes discussion of methods such as agent-based modeling, instrumental variables, mediation analysis, and causal modeling.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors
PART I Foundations
THE SCOPE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
Kenneth J. Rothman, Timothy L. Lash, Sebastien Haneuse, and Tyler J. VanderWeele
CAUSAL INFERENCE AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman
FORMAL CAUSAL MODELS
Tyler J. VanderWeele and Kenneth J. Rothman
MEASURES OF OCCURRENCE
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
MEASURES OF EFFECT AND MEASURES OF ASSOCIATION
Kenneth J. Rothman, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Timothy L. Lash
EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDY DESIGN WITH VALIDITY AND EFFICIENCY CONSIDERATIONS
Kenneth J. Rothman and Timothy L. Lash
PART II STUDY DESIGN AND INTERPRETATION
COHORT STUDIES
Kenneth J. Rothman, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Timothy L. Lash
CASE-CONTROL STUDIES
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE
Richard S. Hopkins and James W. Buehler
FIELD METHODS
Lauren A. Wise and Patricia Hartge
STUDIES RELYING ON SECONDARY DATA
Krista F. Huybrechts and Sebastian Schneeweiss
CONFOUNDING AND CONFOUNDERS
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash
MEASUREMENT AND MEASUREMENT ERROR
Timothy L. Lash, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Kenneth J. Rothman
SELECTION BIAS AND GENERALIZABILITY
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
PRECISION AND STUDY SIZE
Kenneth J. Rothman and Timothy L. Lash
PART III DATA ANALYSIS
FUNDAMENTALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGIC DATA ANALYSIS
Sebastien Haneuse and Kenneth J. Rothman
INTRODUCTION TO CATEGORICAL STATISTICS
Sebastien Haneuse
STRATIFICATION AND STANDARDIZATION
Sebastien Haneuse and Kenneth J. Rothman
CATEGORICAL ANALYSIS OF POLYTOMOUS AND OUTCOMES
Sebastien Haneuse
REGRESSION ANALYSIS PART I: MODEL SPECIFICATION
Sebastien Haneuse
REGRESSION ANALYSIS PART II: MODEL FITTING AND ASSESSMENT
Sebastien Haneuse
TIME-TO-EVENT ANALYSIS
Sebastien Haneuse
INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN STATISTICS
Sander Greenland
LONGITUDINAL AND CLUSTER-CORRELATED DATA ANALYSIS
Sebastien Haneuse
CAUSAL INFERENCE WITH TIME-VARYING EXPOSURES
Tyler J. VanderWeele
ANALYSIS OF INTERACTION
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman
MEDIATION ANALYSIS
Tyler J. VanderWeele
INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES AND QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES
M. Maria Glymour and Sonja A. Swanson
BIAS ANALYSIS
Timothy L. Lash
ECOLOGIC STUDIES AND ANALYSIS
Hal Morgenstern and Jon Wakefield
AGENT-BASED MODELING
Brandon D.L. Marshall
PART IV SPECIAL TOPICS
INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Matthew P. Fox and Emily W. Gower
REPRODUCTIVE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Clarice R. Weinburg, Allen J, Wilcox, and Anne Marie Jukic
PSYCHIATRIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
Katherine M. Keyes, Sharon B. Schwartz, and Ezra S. Susser
CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Jan P. Vandenbroucke and Henrik Toft Sørensen
MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY
Claire H. Pernar, Konrad H. Stopsack, and Lorelei Mucci
GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY
John S. Witte and Duncan C. Thomas
INJURY AND VIOLENCE EPIDEMIOLOGY
Stephen W. Marshall and Guohua Li
SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Jay S. Kaufman
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Stephanie M. Engel
OCCUPATIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
David Richardson
NUTRITIONAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Walter C. Willett and Frank B. Hu
PHARMACOEPIDEMIOLOGY
Sebastian Schneeweiss and Krista F. Huybrechts
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