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Dewey Decimal Number: 614.4 EAN: 9780316757805 Edition: 3 ISBN: 0316757802 Label: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Manufacturer: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 737 Publication Date: January 15, 1998 Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Studio: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The vastly expanded Second Edition of Dr. Rothman's acclaimed Modern Epidemiology reflects the remarkable conceptual development of this evolving science and the engagement of epidemiologists with an increasing range of current public health concerns. This landmark work is the most comprehensive and cohesive text on the principles and methods of contemporary epidemiologic research.Coauthored by two leading epidemiologists, with 15 additional contributors, the Second Edition presents a much broader range of concepts and methods than Dr. Rothman's single-authored original edition. Coverage of basic measures and study types is more thorough and includes a new chapter on field methods. New chapters on advanced topics in data analysis, such as hierarchical regression, are also included. A new section covers specific areas of research such as infectious disease epidemiology, ecologic studies, disease surveillance, analysis of vital statistics, screening, clinical epidemiology, environmental and occupational epidemiology, reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and nutritional epidemiology. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - oydidnt care for this book. Good information, but presented poorly. I think there are better textbooks out there now that present information clearer and in less words and without crazy equations. Rating:  - WORST epi book for students!!!This text is not suitable for students at all. You will get more use out of this book as a doorjamb. Very disorganized and poorly written. Takes straightforward epidemiologcial concepts and overly comlpicates them. Don't believe the 5 star ratings. They are highly suspect and appear to be written by the authors themselves or their groupies. If you are a student trying to learn epidemiology, avoid this book at all costs. Rating: - A good reference on shelfIt is a good refence-type textbook for epidemiology. I first used it in my introductory course of epidemiology at Harvard University's program of Master of Public Health. Even Prof. Rothman came to classroom in person for several lectures. It was a good book but accompanying books were needed for better understanding of the topic. Now I am in my PhD program at National Taiwan University, Taiwan and using the book for the 2nd time. There are still new things to discover from the book. For a ... Read More Rating:  - The standard textbook in the fieldWith all the pros and cons of an advanced-level book written by many authors, this work is widely considered the standard text in the field. As a professor of mine says, every epidemiologist should have it on her/his bookshelf. Rating: - unnecessary details on statistics subjectI agree with many reviewers here that the book is great, but poorly organized and put too much on statistical methods. I have read through it from cover to cover for my exams. Nevertheless, the first part discussion is very good, but you need to read other books before reading Rothman's book. Acutally, I really hate Greenland's writing, it is too obscure. I would not recommend this book to students. 
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