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Article: Statistics for Epidemiology.(Book Review)
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- Technometrics
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- February 1, 2005
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Statistics for Epidemiology, by Nicholas P. JEWELL, Boca Raton, FL: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2004, ISBN 1-58488-433-9, xiv + 333 pp., $69.95.
Multivariate Methods in Epidemiology, by Theodore R. HOLFORD, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-512440-5, xvii + 408 pp., $57.95.
Fifteen years ago, when I first had to deal with an epidemiology project, there were no good statistics books for the subject. By now I have reported several that I like a lot, most recently the excellent book by Newman (2001) (reported in Ziegel 2002). In addition, Steven Selvin, author of the first good book on epidemiologic statistics that I encountered (see Ziegel 1995 ...