Selected as a Doody's Core Title for 2025!
- Reflects both the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasing role that epidemiology plays in both public health and medicine.
- Features a new full-color design, new coverage of marginal structural models, new instrumental variable analysis, updated structural nested models, and more.
- Covers a broad range of concepts and methods, including epidemiologic measures of occurrence and effect, study designs, validity, precision, statistical interference, field methods, and causal diagrams.
- Includes data analysis topics such as Bayesian analysis, sensitivity analysis, and bias analysis, with an extensive overview of modern regression methods including logistic and survival regression, splines, hierarchical (multilevel) regression, propensity scores and other scoring methods, and g-estimation.
- Discusses special topics such as disease surveillance, ecologic studies, social epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, genetic and molecular epidemiology, nutritional epidemiology, environmental epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, clinical epidemiology, and meta-analysis.
- Coauthored by three leading epidemiologists, with contributions from experts in a variety of epidemiologic sub-disciplines.
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