Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Biostatistics + Acceso Online

Description

All new copies of this text include an access code card that will give your students entrée to a companion website that offers a complete package interactive learning materials including flashcards, matching exercises, glossary, and more.

This book will familiarize your students with basic principles of epidemiology and biostatistics. Designed for use in a single course, it will clarify the distinction and complementary roles of epidemiology and biostatistics in a range of settings, and train students on the complementary roles epidemiology and biostatistics play in carrying out selected activities in the health professions. After completing this book, the student should be able to:

• Describe epidemiological methods and study designs
• Select appropriate methodologies for epidemiological investigation
• Use the epidemiological process to address health care problems
• Evaluate environmental epidemiology and population surveillance
• Describe epidemiological measures of health
• Distinguish the roles and relationships between epidemiology and statistics
• Combine appropriate epidemiological concepts and statistical measures
• Calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities of health-related events

Table of Contents

About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Data and Descriptive Measures
Chapter 3 Standardizing Rates
Chapter 4 Describing Data with Graphs
Chapter 5 Life Tables
Chapter 6 Probability
Chapter 7 Random Variables and Probability Distributions
Chapter 8 Estimation and Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 9 Sample Size
Chapter 10 Study Designs
Chapter 11 Statistical Measures of Association among Variables
Chapter 12 Experimental Studies
Chapter 13 Survival Analysis
Chapter 14 Cause and Effect
Appendix A SAS Procedure Code
Appendix B Tables
Appendix C Model Building
Appendix D Answers to Exercises

About the Authors

Ray M. Merrill, PhD, MPH-Brigham Young University, Utah

Ray M. Merrill, Ph.D., M.P.H. has been actively involved in epidemiology since his professional career began in 1995. As a Cancer Prevention Fellow at the National Cancer Institute, he worked with leading researchers in the area of cancer epidemiology. In 1998 he joined the faculty in the Department of Health Science at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, where he continued his research in epidemiology. Since 1999 he has also held an adjunct faculty position in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah. In 2001, he spent a sabbatical working in the Unit of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention at the International Agency for Research on Cancer Administration, Lyon, France. He has won various awards for his research in cancer epidemiology.

Dr. Merrill currently teaches introductory and advanced level classes in epidemiology and biostatistics. He has over 100 professional publications in epidemiology and public health journals. He is currently a full professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Brigham Young University.