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    <title>introduction to epidemiology for health professionals</title>
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    <dateIssued>c2010</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2010</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xii, 161 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Descriptive epidemiology -- Measures of disease occurrence -- Estimates of associations -- Age standardization -- Causes of diseases -- Descriptive epidemiology in public health -- Descriptive epidemiology in genetic epidemiology -- Descriptive epidemiology in clinical epidemiology -- Analytical epidemiology -- Design options -- Follow-up studies -- Case-control studies -- Cross-sectional study -- Randomized controlled trial (RCT) -- Analytical epidemiology in public health -- Analytical epidemiology in genetic epidemiology -- Analytical epidemiology in clinical epidemiology -- Sources of error -- Confounding and bias -- Confounding -- Information bias -- Selection bias -- Making inference and making decisions -- Sources of error in public health epidemiology -- Sources of error in genetic epidemiology -- Sources of error in clinical epidemiology -- Statistics in epidemiology -- P values -- Calculating confidence intervals.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Jørn Olsen ... [et al.].</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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