Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology by Thomas, Duncan C.

Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199232895)

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Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology by Thomas, Duncan C.

Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

$150.00
Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology by Thomas, Duncan C.

Statistical Methods in Environmental Epidemiology

$150.00
Format: Hardcover
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Environmental epidemiology is the study of the environmental causes of disease in populations and how these risks vary in relation to intensity and duration of exposure and other factors like genetic susceptibility. As such, it is the basic science upon which governmental safety standards and compensation policies for environmental and occupational exposure are based. Profusely illustrated with examples from the epidemiologic literature on ionizing radiation and air ollution, this text provides a systematic treatment of the statistical challenges that arise in environmental health studies and the use of epidemiologic data in formulating public policy, at a level suitable for graduate students and epidemiologic researchers.

After a general overview of study design and statistical methods for epidemiology generally, the book goes on to address the problems that are unique to environmental health studies, special-purpose designs like two-phase case-control studies and countermatching, statistical methods for modeling exposure-time-response relationships, longitudinal and time-series studies, spatial and ecologic methods, exposure measurement error, interactions, and mechanistic models. It also discusses studies aimed at evaluating the public health benefits of interventions to improve the environment, the use of epidemiologic data to establish environmental safety standards and compensation policy, and concludes with emerging problems in reproductive epidemiology, natural and man-made disasters like global warming, and the global burden of environmentally caused disease. No other book provides such a broad perspective on the methodological challenges in this field at a level accessible to both epidemiologists and statisticians.

Author: Duncan C. Thomas
ISBN-10: 019923289X
ISBN-13: 9780199232895
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2009
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.10d
By Duncan C. Thomas
By Duncan C. Thomas
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Dr. Thomas is Professor of Preventive Medicine, Director of the Biostatistics Division, and Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, an M.S. in Mathematics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University in 1976. His primary research interest has been in the development of statistical methods in epidemiology, both environmental and genetic. He was a member of President Clinton's Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, as well as the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation (BEIR V), and radiation advisory committees for other governmental agencies. Dr. Thomas has many publications in statistical genetics, including the textbook Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology (OUP, 2004), and is a past President of the International Genetic Epidiology Society.

Books by the same author:
Statistical Methods in Genetic Epidemiology, 2004

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