EPIB634 Resources: epidemiology: concepts/terminology/measures

Motivating Examples

• 32 examples

(jh) Lecture Notes in other courses

• 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

Computer Code

• Russian Roulette and other mis-adventures(R)

Needlestick injuries in 100 residents over 12 months (Java applets)

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Data used to create Canadian lifetable 2000-2002

• Values of q for Canadian life table, females, 2002-2002 [in R]

Classic Articles

• Estimability and Estimation in Case-Referent Studies. O. Miettinen AJE 1976

Statistical texts

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

• Chapter 2 Fundamental Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association

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

• Extracts from Chapters 1, 4 and 5

Epidemiology texts

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

Introduction to Epidemiology (K Rothman, 2002)

• Chapter 3. Measuring disease occurrence and causal effects

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

• From chapters 3 and 4

Data, etc..

Incidence Confusion

• Incidence of Pregnancy-Associated Venous Thromboembolism