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Modern Epidemiology, 4th Edition, is a comprehensive and authoritative text that provides unparalleled coverage of the principles and methods of epidemiologic research, reflecting the conceptual development of the field and its increasing role in public health and medicine. It features a new full-color design, updated models, and a new format allowing space for margin notes, and 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. It also includes data analysis topics such as Bayesian analysis, sensitivity analysis, and bias analysis, with an extensive overview of modern regression methods. Format: Paperback / softback Length: 1192 pages Publication date: 06 January 2021 Publisher: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Modern Epidemiology, a Doody's Core Title for 2022 and 2023, remains the gold standard text in the complex and evolving field of epidemiology. This fully revised 4th Edition features a new, full-color design, updated models, and a new format with space for margin notes, providing authoritative information on the methodologic issues crucial to the wide range of epidemiologic applications in public health and medicine. The book reflects the conceptual development of this evolving science and the increasing role that epidemiology plays in both public health and medicine. It features a new full-color design, new coverage of marginal structural models, instrumental variable analysis, updated structural nested models, and more. The book 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. It 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. It 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, Modern Epidemiology is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of epidemiology. Weight: 1752g Dimension: 183 x 255 x 39 (mm) ISBN-13: 9781451193282 Edition number: 4 ed Show more