Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Quantitative Methods

by Lawrence L. Kupper, David G. Kleinbaum, Hal Morgenstern

Book Overview

Epidemiologic Research Principles and Quantitative Methods David G. Kleinbaum, Ph.D. Lawrence L. Kupper. Ph.D. Hal Morgenstern, Ph.D. Epidemiologic Research covers the principles and methods of planning, analysis and interpretation of epidemiologic research studies. It supplies the applied researcher with the most up-to-date methodological thought and practice. Specifically, the book focuses on quantitative (including statistical) issues arising from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534979505
• ISBN13: 9780534979508
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Company
• Length: 529 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.

Customer Reviews

KKM

This is a fine textbook, but I am compelled to respond to the first review. Nondifferential misclassification unfortunately does not always produce a bias towards the null. See more recent texts for details.

Good discussion of misclassification bias

Most epidemiology texts I have seen do not show a proof of the commonly stated issue that misclassification bias always produces a bias toward the null. This text provides such a proof and does so eloquently