BIOS602 Resources: Epidemiology: Inference & Regression models

[updated January 28, 2009]

Lecture Notes

Epidemiology texts

Observation and Inference (A Walker1991)

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

Primer of Epidemiology (G Friedman; 1974... newer, larger, editions available)

Index vii Primer-Epi-Friedman-Ch12-14.pdf
Statistical texts

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

Statistical Methods in Cancer research, volume II (N Breslow and N Day 1987)

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

Survival Analysis: Techniques for Censored & Truncated Data (Klein & Moeschberger)

Excerpts: Generalized Linear Models (P McCullagh and J Nelder 1989)

7.3 Hypergeometric distributions

Theoretica Epidemiology (O. Miettenen, 1985)

Articles
Datasets

Québec mortality data , 1971, 1976, 1980-1992 2002

Normal Breslow's webpage

Longevity of actors/actresses who have been nominated for an Oscar

FIFA dataset [study of effect of altitude on performance]

Example 3.11, Table 3.14, (arsenic exposure, 13 strata), Breslow and Day Vol II

Example, p 137 Breslow and Day Vol I, and Table 4.3 page 145 [c-c,6 strata]

Example 5.1, p 187-190, Breslow and Day Vol I [BrCa Estrogen, 23 risksets]

WOBURN LEUKEMIA dataset and R code for MLE

dataCode
Software, computer code ...

For Person-Years Analyses

Conditional MLE of common OR - k 2x2 tables

On the shoulders of giants

Nathan Mantel 1919-2002

Norman Breslow

Statisticians in History