Modern Epidemiology, Fourth Edition provides a complete desk reference of the methods of modern epidemiology, with contributions from the 4 authors plus 35 leading experts from various subfields. Intended as a sort of encyclopedia, the text has broad coverage of introductory and advanced epidemiological methods with discussions that are clear and concise.
The fourth edition includes discussion of methods such as agent-based modeling, instrumental variables, mediation analysis, and causal modeling.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Contributors
PART I Foundations
1 The Scope of Epidemiology
Kenneth J. Rothman, Timothy L. Lash, Sebastien Haneuse, and Tyler J. VanderWeele
2 Causal Inference and Scientific Reasoning
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman
3 Formal Causal Models
Tyler J. VanderWeele and Kenneth J. Rothman
4 Measures of Occurrence
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
5 Measures of Effect and Measures of Association
Kenneth J. Rothman, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Timothy L. Lash
6 Epidemiologic Study Design With Validity and Efficiency Considerations
Kenneth J. Rothman and Timothy L. Lash
PART II Study Design and Interpretation
7 Cohort Studies
Kenneth J. Rothman, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Timothy L. Lash
8 Case-Control Studies
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
9 Public Health Surveillance
Richard S. Hopkins and James W. Buehler
10 Field Methods
Lauren A. Wise and Patricia Hartge
11 Studies Relying on Secondary Data
Krista F. Huybrechts and Sebastian Schneeweiss
12 Confounding and Confounders
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Kenneth J. Rothman, and Timothy L. Lash
13 Measurement and Measurement Error
Timothy L. Lash, Tyler J. VanderWeele, and Kenneth J. Rothman
14 Selection Bias and Generalizability
Timothy L. Lash and Kenneth J. Rothman
15 Precision and Study Size
Kenneth J. Rothman and Timothy L. Lash
PART III Data Analysis
16 Fundamentals of Epidemiologic Data Analysis
Sebastien Haneuse and Kenneth J. Rothman
17 Introduction to Categorical Statistics
Sebastien Haneuse
18 Stratification and Standardization
Sebastien Haneuse and Kenneth J. Rothman
19 Categorical Analysis of Polytomous Exposures and Outcomes
Sebastien Haneuse
20 Regression Analysis Part I: Model Specification
Sebastien Haneuse
21 Regression Analysis Part II: Model Fitting and Assessment
Sebastien Haneuse
22 Time-To-Event Analysis
Sebastien Haneuse
23 Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
Sander Greenland
24 Longitudinal and Cluster-Correlated Data Analysis
Sebastien Haneuse
25 Causal Inference With Time-Varying Exposures
Tyler J. VanderWeele
26 Analysis of Interaction
Tyler J. VanderWeele, Timothy L. Lash, and Kenneth J. Rothman
27 Mediation Analysis
Tyler J. VanderWeele
28 Instrumental Variables and Quasi-Experimental Approaches
M. Maria Glymour and Sonja A. Swanson
29 Bias Analysis
Timothy L. Lash
30 Ecologic Studies and Analysis
Hal Morgenstern and Jon Wakefield
31 Agent-Based Modeling
Brandon D.L. Marshall
PART IV Special Topics
32 Infectious Disease Epidemiology
Matthew P. Fox and Emily W. Gower
33 Reproductive Epidemiology
Clarice R. Weinburg, Allen J, Wilcox, and Anne Marie Jukic
34 Psychiatric Epidemiology
Katherine M. Keyes, Sharon B. Schwartz, and Ezra S. Susser
35 Clinical Epidemiology
Jan P. Vandenbroucke and Henrik Toft Sørensen
36 Molecular Epidemiology
Claire H. Pernar, Konrad H. Stopsack, and Lorelei Mucci
37 Genetic Epidemiology
John S. Witte and Duncan C. Thomas
38 Injury and Violence Epidemiology
Stephen W. Marshall and Guohua Li
39 Social Epidemiology
Jay S. Kaufman
40 Environmental Epidemiology
Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Stephanie M. Engel
41 Occupational Epidemiology
David Richardson
42 Nutritional Epidemiology
Walter C. Willett and Frank B. Hu
43 Pharmacoepidemiology
Sebastian Schneeweiss and Krista F. Huybrechts
Index
