Modern Epidemiology, 3rd Edition

Authors: Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
with 19 contributors
Publisher: Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins
Copyright: 2008
ISBN-10: 0-7817-5564-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-7817-5564-1
Pages: 851; hardcover
Price: $86.00
Modern Epidemiology, Third Edition provides a complete desk reference of the methods of modern epidemiology, with contributions from the three authors plus nineteen leading experts from various subfields. Intended as a sort of encyclopedia, the text has broad coverage and the discussions are clear and concise and include citations to every reference imaginable.

The third edition updates the second (published in 1998) to include coverage of new methods being applied in epidemiology in this century. Among these new methods are the following: Bayesian analysis of tables, risk/policy analysis, the use of secondary data sources such as registry databases, and statistical genetics.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors
1 Introduction
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
Section I: Basic Concepts
2 Causation and Causal Inference
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Charles Poole, and Timothy L. Lash
3 Measures of Occurrence
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
4 Measures of Effect and Measures of Association
Sander Greenland, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash
5 Concepts of Interaction
Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman
Section II: Study Design and Conduct
6 Types of Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
7 Cohort Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman and Sander Greenland
8 Case–Control Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
9 Validity in Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
10 Precision and Statistics in Epidemiologic Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
11 Design Strategies to Improve Study Accuracy
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, and Timothy L. Lash
12 Causal Diagrams
M. Maria Glymour and Sander Greenland
Section III: Data Analysis
13 Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
14 Introduction to Categorical Statistics
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
15 Introduction to Stratified Analysis
Sander Greenland and Kenneth J. Rothman
16 Applications of Stratified Analysis Methods
Sander Greenland
17 Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes
Sander Greenland
18 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Sander Greenland
19 Bias Analysis
Sander Greenland and Timothy L. Lash
20 Introduction to Regression Models
Sander Greenland
21 Introduction to Regression Modeling
Sander Greenland
Section IV: Special Topics
22 Surveillance
James W. Buehler
23 Using Secondary Data
Jørn Olsen
24 Field Methods in Epidemiology
Patricia Hartge and Jack Cahill
25 Ecologic Studies
Hal Morgenstern
26 Social Epidemiology
Jay S. Kaufman
27 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
C. Robert Horsburgh Jr. and Barbara E. Mahon
28 Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology
Muin J. Khoury, Robert Millikan, and Marta Gwinn
29 Nutritional Epidemiology
Walter C. Willett
30 Environmental Epidemiology
Irva Hertz-Picciotto
31 Methodologic Issues in Reproductive Epidemiology
Clarice R. Weinberg and Allen J. Wilcox
32 Clinical Epidemiology
Noel S. Weiss
33 Meta-Analysis
Sander Greenland and Keith O'Rourke
References
Index