Making Sense of Data: A Self-Instruction Manual on the Interpretation of Epidemiologic Data - Hardcover

Abramson, J. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195089685 ISBN 13: 9780195089684

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This edition includes a new section on meta-analysis, the critical review and integration of the findings of separate studies of the same topic. Its aim is to provide readers with the basic skills required for making sense of the results (similar or dissimilar) of a set of epidemiological studies, and for appraising published reports of meta-analyses and deciding whether to accept their conclusions. In other sections of the book, elucidatory comments have been added and references updated.

About this title

About the Author

J.H. Abramson is Professor of Social Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Jerusalem. He is author of Survey Methods In Community Medicne: Epidemiological Studies, Program Evaluation, Clinical Trials, Fourth Edition (1990), and co-author of Calculator Programs for the Health Sciences (Oxford, 1983).

Review

"The references are both current and pertinent....An interesting book that would be useful for students and health professionals who have no training in epidemiology or biostatistics....The sections of this text that were included in the first edition have been updated and errors
corrected....This second edition includes an important, and well-explained, section on meta-analysis." --Sylvia E. Furner, PhD, MPH, University of Illinois at Chicago, Doody's Journal

"Special and Unique. Nice pedogological technique to enhance a professional science sense."--Anthony F. Vuturo, MD, MPH, University of Arizona

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0195089685
• ISBN 13: 9780195089684
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 416