Title Monitoring the health of populations : statistical principles and methods for public health surveillance / edited by Ron Brookmeyer, Donna F. Stroup

Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 370 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Public health surveillance in action : a framework / Donna F. Stroup, Ron Brookmeyer, and William D. Kalsbeek -- The use of surveys in public health surveillance : monitoring high-risk populations / William D. Kalsbeek -- Exploring temporal and spatial patterns in public health surveillance data / Owen Devine -- Temporal factors in public health surveillance : sorting out age, period, and cohort effects / Theodore R. Holford -- Temporal factors in epidemics : the role of the incubation period / Ron Brookmeyer -- Using public health data to evaluate screening programs : application to prostate cancer / Ruth Etzioni, Larry Kessler, and Dante di Tommaso -- Detecting disease clustering in time or space / Lance A. Waller -- Outbreak detection : application to infectious disease surveillance / Paddy Farrington and Nick Andrews -- On-line monitoring of public health surveillance data / Peter Diggle [and others] -- Bayesian hierarchical modeling of public health surveillance data : a case study of air pollution and mortality / Scott L. Zeger [and others] -- Some considerations in spatial-temporal analysis of public health surveillance data / Andrew B. Lawson -- Ecologic inference problems in the analysis of surveillance data / Sander Greenland -- Completeness of reporting : capture-recapture methods in public health surveillance / Ernest B. Hook and Ronald R. Regal Summary This text explores the critical issues in the statistical analysis and interpretation of public health surveillance data. It covers statistical methods for detecting disease outbreaks and clusters, the use of survey methods and interpreting time trends and geographic patterns, among other topics Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Public health surveillance. Public health surveillance -- Statistical methods Epidemiology. Statistics as Topic -- methods Population Surveillance Epidemiology Epidemiology Public health surveillance Public health surveillance -- Statistical methods Form Electronic book Author Brookmeyer, Ron Stroup, Donna F., 1951- ISBN 9780199864928 0199864926 9780195146493 0195146492

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