Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

Harold A. Kahn is Visiting Professor of Epidemiology, John Hopkins University. Christopher T. Sempos is an epidemiologist at the National Center for Health Statistics.

• Review of selected elementary statistics; Random sampling; Relative risk and odds ratio; Attributable risk; Adjustment of data without use of multivariate models; Adjustment of data using multivariate models; Follow-up studies: life tables; Follow-up studies: person years; Comparison of numerical results for various methods of adjustment; The primacy of data collection.

does a good job of summarizing the various statistical methods used for analysing epidemiological studies ... There is much statistical information which is useful and attractively written, making it a useful reference text.