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050		0	_aRA651 _bS94 2004
100	1		_aSzklo, M. _q (Moyses)
245	1	0	_aEpidemiology : _b beyond the basics / _c Moyses Szklo, F. Javier Nieto.
260			_aSudbury, Mass. : _b Jones and Bartlett, _c c2004.
300			_axvi, 495 p. : _b il. ; _c 23 cm.
504			_aIncluye referencias bibliográficas
505	1		_aBasic study designs in analytical epidemiology -- Introduction: descriptive and analytical epidemiology -- Analysis of age, birth cohort, and period effects -- Ecologic studies -- Studies based on individuals as observation units -- Measuring disease occurrence -- Introduction: basic elements of epidemiologic inference; defining and counting disease outcomes -- Measures of incidence -- Measures of prevalence -- Odds -- Measuring associations between exposures and outcomes -- Introduction -- Measuring associations in a cohort study -- Cross-sectional studies: point prevalence rate ratio -- Measuring associations in case-control studies --Assessing the strength of associations -- Threats to validity and issues of interpretation -- Understanding lack of validity: bias overview -- Selection bias -- Information bias -- Combined selection/information biases -- Biases in reporting study results: publication bias -- Identifying noncausal associations: confounding -- Introduction -- The nature of the association between the confounder, the exposure, and the outcome -- Assessing the presence of confounding -- Additional issues related to confounding -- Conclusion -- Defining and assessing heterogeneity of effects: interaction -- Introduction -- How is effect measured? -- Strategies to evaluate interaction -- Assessment of interaction in case-control studies -- More on the interchangeability of the definitions of interaction -- Which is the relevant model: additive versus multiplicative interaction? -- The nature and reciprocity of interaction -- Interaction, confounding effect, and adjustment -- Statistical modeling and statistical tests for interaction -- Interpreting interaction -- Interaction and search for new risk factors in low-risk groups -- Interaction and "representativeness" of associations -- Dealing with threats to validity -- Stratification and adjustment: multivariate analysis in epidemiology -- Introduction -- Stratification and adjustment techniques to disentangle confounding -- Adjustment methods based on stratification -- Multiple regression techniques for adjustment -- Incomplete adjustment: residual confounding -- Overadjustment -- Conclusion -- Quality assurance and control -- Introduction -- Quality assurance -- Quality control -- Indices of validity and reliability -- Regression to the mean -- Issues of reporting -- Communicating results of epidemiologic studies -- Introduction -- What to report -- How to report -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: standard errors, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for selected measures of risk and measures of association -- Appendix B: test for trend (dose response) -- Appendix C: test of homogeneity of stratified estimates (test for interaction) -- Appendix D: quality assurance and quality control procedures manual for blood pressure measurement and blood/urine collection in the ARIC study -- Appendix E: calculation of the intraclass correlation coefficient.
650		0	_aEpidemiology.
650		0	_aEpidemiology _x Methodology
650	1	2	_aEpidemiologic Methods
650	1	2	_aEpidemiology.
650		7	_aEpidemiología _2LEMB
700	1		_aNieto, F. Javier.
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942			_cLIBRO
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