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