| Description |
xxii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Oxford psychiatry series |
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Oxford psychiatry series.
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| Contents |
The burden of mental illness / Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser -- The arc of epidemiology / Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia -- Searching for the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser ... [et al.] -- What is a cause? / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Detecting causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Study designs / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Relationships among causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Measures of association / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Prototypical cohort study / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Diversity of cohort studies / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Causal inference: a thought experiment / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Confounding: what it is and what can be done / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- |
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Differential misclassification / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Logic of the case control design / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Applications of the case control study / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls / Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser -- Comparability and the case control study / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Biologic studies in psychiatry / Jack M. Gorman and Ezra Susser -- Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry / Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman -- Gauging associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Establishing associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Planning studies: power and sample size / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Statistical adjustment / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Survival analysis / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Analysis of Interaction / Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Integrating epidemiology with genetics / Ezra Susser, Habibul Ahsan and Mary-Claire King -- Genetic association studies / Habibul Ahsan ... [et al.] -- Modern family history studies / Regina Zimmerman ... [et al.] --/ñ |
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Twin studies of heritability / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Genetic linkage studies / Habibul Ahsan ... [et al.] -- Designs for the genomic era / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser -- Eco-epidemiology / Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia -- Causal explanation within a risk factor framework / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser -- Causal explanation outside the black box / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser -- Dependent and dynamic processes / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Psychiatric epidemiology.
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Mental illness -- Etiology.
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| Author |
Susser, Ezra S., 1952-
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| LC no. |
2005015870 |
| ISBN |
9780195101812 (alk. paper) |
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0195101812 (alk. paper) |
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