Giesecke, Johan. creator text bibliography enk London New York New York, NY Arnold Distributed in the USA by Oxford University Press 2002 2nd ed. monographic eng

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xi, 268 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Ch. 1. What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Ch. 2. Definitions -- Ch. 3. Descriptive epidemiology -- Ch. 4. Risk, relative risk and attack rate -- Ch. 5. The case-control study: odds, odds ratios -- the concept of confounding -- Ch. 6. The cohort study: rates -- the concept of bias -- Ch. 7. Some statistical procedures that are often used in epidemiology -- Ch. 8. Clinical epidemiology: sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Ch. 9. Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Ch. 10. Survival analysis -- Ch. 11. Mathematical models for epidemics -- Ch. 12. Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Ch. 13. Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Ch. 14. Measuring infectivity -- Ch. 15. Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Ch. 16. Seroepidemiology -- Ch. 17. The study of contact patterns -- Ch. 18. Methods for deciding whether or not an illness is infectious -- Ch. 19. The epidemiology of vaccination Ch. 20. The epidemiology of AIDS and variant CJD -- Ch. 21. Further reading by Johan Giesecke. Includes bibliographical references and index. Communicable diseases Epidemiology Communicable Diseases Epidemiologic Methods RA651 .G54 2002 362.196 GIE 2001 O-432 WC 100 G455m 2002 0340764236 2002284687 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-t.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002284687-t.html BSULIB 020725 20260518114230.0 12870443 English