Modern infectious disease epidemiology /
Giesecke, Johan,
Modern infectious disease epidemiology / Johan Giesecke. - Third edition. - Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2017] - xii, 233 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Definitions -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Risk, relative risk, and attack rate -- The case-control study : odds, odds ratio ; the concept of confounding -- The cohort study : rates. ; the concept of bias -- The cohort study: rates ; the concept of bias -- Clinical epidemiology : sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Survival analysis -- Mathematical models for epidemics -- Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Measuring infectivity -- Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Seroepidemiology -- The study of contact patterns -- Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious -- The epidemiology of vaccination -- The use of subtyping.
9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Communicable Diseases
Epidemiologic Methods
WC 100 / .M63 2017
Modern infectious disease epidemiology / Johan Giesecke. - Third edition. - Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, [2017] - xii, 233 pages : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is special about infectious disease epidemiology? -- Definitions -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Risk, relative risk, and attack rate -- The case-control study : odds, odds ratio ; the concept of confounding -- The cohort study : rates. ; the concept of bias -- The cohort study: rates ; the concept of bias -- Clinical epidemiology : sensitivity, specificity, misclassification -- Multivariate analysis and interaction -- Survival analysis -- Mathematical models for epidemics -- Detection and analysis of outbreaks -- Routine surveillance of infectious diseases -- Measuring infectivity -- Studying the natural history of infectious diseases -- Seroepidemiology -- The study of contact patterns -- Methods to decide whether or not an illness is infectious -- The epidemiology of vaccination -- The use of subtyping.
9781444180022 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Communicable Diseases
Epidemiologic Methods
WC 100 / .M63 2017