The Analysis of Case-control Studies (v. 1) (International Agency for Research on Cancer Scientific Publications) - Tapa dura

This volume brings together the methods available for analyzing case-control data, making them accessible to the practising epidemiologist and statistician. The authors present both the statistical models and theory behind the methods, and the practical steps of applying them to specific sets of data. The book gives guidance on which strategies to adopt in analyzing data, how to handle confounding variables, how to model interactions, and how to approach the question of causality in the final interpretation of results.