Gerstman, B. B. (2003). Epidemiology Kept Simple (2/e). New York: Wiley-Liss.
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B. Burt Gerstman (B.B.Gerstman@sjsu.edu) 

Errata and notes

Chapter

Review Questions 

Exercises 

Power Points

Formulas & Articles

Labs (Case Studies)

1: Epi Past and Present

01-RQ.htm  

01-exercises.htm  

chap1-eks-2ed.ppt

 

Lab_The_Epidemiologic_Tradition.pdf

2: Epi concepts 

02-RQ.htm

02-exercises.htm  

chap2-eks-2ed.ppt

Rothman1976.pdf

Lab_Multiple_Sclerosis.pdf 

3: Infectious Disease Process 

03-RQ.htm

03-exercises.htm

chap3-eks-2ed.ppt

 

 

4: Screening for Disease

04-RQ.htm

04-exercises.htm 

chap4-eks-2ed.ppt 

04-formulas.pdf

ScreeningLab.pdf

5: Case Definitions & ... 

05-RQ.htm

05-exercises.htm 

 

 

 

6: Incidence and Prevalence

06-RQ.htm

06-exercises.htm 

chap6-eks-2ed.ppt

06-formulas.pdf

LAB_Incidence_Prevalence.pdf
MeasuringDiseaseSimplified.pdf

7: Rate Adjustment

07-RQ.htm

07-exercises.htm

chap7-eks-2ed.ppt

07-formulas.pdf 
07-new-formula-insight.pdf

StandardizationSimplified.pdf

8: Measures of Association & Impact

08-RQ.htm

08-exercises.htm  

chap8-eks-2ed.ppt

08-formulas.pdf

RelatingRiskFactorsSimplified.pdf
 Also see outbreak investigations (Chapter 20)

9: Types of Studies 

09-RQ.htm

09-exercises.htm 

chap9-eks-2ed.ppt

 

AnalyticStudSimplified.pdf

10: Experimental Studies

10-RQ.htm

10-exercises.htm

chap10-eks-2ed.ppt

 

Lab_Experimental_Study_Design.pdf 
Miettinen1989.pdf  

11: Observational Studies

11-RQ.htm

11-exercises.htm

chap11-eks-2ed.ppt

11-5-formulas.pdf

Lab_Cohort_Study_Design.pdf 
Lab_Case-Control_Study_Design.pdf 
Lab_Nested_Case-Control_Study_Design.pdf 

12: Error  in Epi Research

12-RQ.htm

12-exercises.htm 

chap12-eks-2ed.ppt

 

SourcesOfErrorSimplified.pdf 
Lab_Matter_of_Interpretation.pdf 

Lab_Meta-Analysis_CABG_v_PCI.pdf

13: Confidence Intervals & P Values

 

13-exercises.htm 

 

 

 

14 Mantel-Haenszel Methods

 

 

 

 

Confounding

15 Statistical Interaction

 

 

 

 

 

16: From Association to Causation

16-RQ.htm

16--exercises.htm 

 chap16-eks-2ed.ppt

Doll1965.pdf   
Richard Doll video

Lab_Matter_of_Interpretation.pdf 

Lab_Causal_Inference_Ortho_Evra.pdf 

17 Survival Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

18 Current Life Tables

 

 

 

 

 

19 Random Distribution of Cases in Time and Space

 

 

 

 

 

20: Outbreak Investigation

 

20-exercises.htm

 

 

FoodBorneOutbreakRhyndale.pdf
 AnOutbreakofEnteritis-Mecca.pdf 
Texarkana Epidemic Measles