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Record Nr.

UNINA9910270869503321

Autore

Bruce Nigel

Titolo

Quantitative methods for health research : a practical interactive guide to epidemiology and statistics / / Nigel Bruce, Daniel Pope, Debbi Stanistreet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, New Jersey ; ; Chichester, West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-118-66540-6

1-118-66526-0

1-118-66537-6

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (570 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

THEi Wiley ebooks

Disciplina

610.72

Soggetti

Medicine - Research - Methodology

Health - Research - Methodology

Epidemiology - Research - Methodology

Epidemiologic Methods

Biomedical Research - methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Philosophy of science and introduction to epidemiology -- Routine data sources and descriptive epidemiology -- Standardisation -- Surveys -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies -- Intervention studies -- Life tables, survival analysis and cox regression -- Systematic reviews and meta-analysis -- Prevention strategies and evaluation of screening -- Probability distributions, hypothesis testing and Bayesian methods.