Epidemiology

Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1: Basic Study Designs in Analytical Epidemiology Part 2: Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association Chapter 2: Measuring Disease Occurrence Chapter 3: Measuring Associations Between Exposures and Outcomes Part 3: Threats to Validity and Issues of Interpretation Chapter 4: Understanding Lack of Validity: Bias Chapter 5: Identifying Noncausal Associations: Confounding Chapter 6: Defining and Assessing Heterogeneity of Effects: Interaction Part 4: Dealing with Threats to Validity Chapter 7: Stratification and Adjustment: Multivariate Analysis in Epidemiology Chapter 8: Quality Assurance and Control Part 5: Issues of Reporting and Application of Epidemiologic Results Chapter 9: Communicating Results of Epidemiologic Studies Chapter 10: Epidemiologic Issues in the Interface with Public Health Policy Appendix A: Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing For Selected Measures of Risk and Measures of Association Appendix B: Test for Trend (Dose Responses) Appendix C: Test of Homogeneity of Stratified Estimates (Test for Interaction) Appendix D: Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures Manual for Blood Pressure Measurement and Blood/Urine Collection in the ARIC Study Appendix E: Calculation of the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Appendix F: Exercises-Answers