BIOS601 Resources: epidemiology: concepts/terminology/measures

(jh) Lecture Notes

• Introduction to Epidemiology (for med2 students, Sept 2002)
• From Incidence Density to Cumulative Incidence, and Back (Sept 2007)
• Diagram: driving while on/off the cell phone]
• BIOS601 Notes(2009): Concepts involved in Occurrence Measures in Epidemiology

Statistical texts

Statistical Methods in Cancer research, vol I (N Breslow and N Day 1980)

• Chapter 2 Fundamental Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association
• Section 2.3 Cumulative incidence rates

Statistical Models in Epidemiology (D Clayton and M Hills 1993)

• Extracts from Chapters 1, 4 and 5

Epidemiology texts

Primer of Epidemiology (G Friedman, 1974)

• Ch 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   Index  

PDQ Epidemiology (D Streiner, G Norman, H Munroe-Blum , 1989)

• Ch 1   2   3   4  

Observation and Inference (A Walker, 1991)

• Contents --- see title/preface/contents
• Chapter 1. Disease Frequency

Modern Epidemiology (K Rothman, 1986)

• Front matter
• Chapter 1. The Emergence of Epidemiology
• Chapter 2. Causal Inference in Epidemiology
• Chapter 3. Measures of Disease Frequency

Modern Epidemiology. 2nd Edition (K Rothman and S Greenland, 1998)

• Front matter
• Chapter 3. Measures of Disease Frequency

Epidemiologic Methods: Studying the Occurrence of Illness (T.D. Koepsell & N.S. Weiss, 2003)

• From chapters 3 and 4

Intro to Epi (Rothman 2012)

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Data, etc..

Datasets and programs

• Breast and lung cancer, and all-cause, mortality data, Québec females 1971, 1976, 1980-1992, 2002
  
  
  • In an Excel sheet
    
    
  • In a .csv file ... can read into R, and subset, using

     ds=read.table("Deaths-all-br-lung-Que1971-2002.csv",sep=",",header=T)

     attach(ds) 

     data2002 = ds[year==2002,] 

Incidence Confusion

• Incidence of Pregnancy-Associated Venous Thromboembolism