Theoretical Epidemiology: Principles of Occurrence Research in Medicine

by Olli S. Miettinen

Book Overview

This text treats theoretical epidemiology as the discipline of how to study the occurrence of phenomena of interest in the health field. It delineates major principles of study design and data analysis in research into the frequency of occurrence of illness and related phenomena in human populations whether in the community or in clinical situations. Thus it is concerned with the principles of the dominant type of research in applied medical science...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471867691
• ISBN13: 9780471867692
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 359 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.