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Pt. I Introduction -- Ch. 1 Basic Study Designs in Analytical Epidemiology -- Pt. II Measures of Disease Occurrence and Association -- Ch. 2 Measuring Disease Occurrence -- Ch. 3 Measuring Associations Between Exposures and Outcomes 91 Pt. III Threats to Validity and Issues of Interpretation -- Ch. 4 Understanding Lack of Validity: Bias -- Ch. 5 Identifying Noncausal Associations: Confounding-- Ch. 6 Defining and Assessing Heterogeneity of Effects: Interaction -- Pt. IV Dealing with Threats to Validity -- Ch. 7 Stratification and Adjustment: Multivariate Analysis in Epidemiology -- Ch. 8 Quality Assurance and Control -- Pt. V Issues of Reporting -- Ch. 9 Communicating Results of Epidemiologic Studies-- App. A Standard Errors, Confidence Intervals, and Hypothesis Testing for Selected Measures of Risk and Measures of Association -- App. B Test for Trend (Dose Response) -- App. C Test of Homogeneity of Stratified Estimates (Test for Interaction) -- App. D Quality Assurance and Quality Control Procedures Manual for Blood Pressure Measurement and Blood/Urine Collection in the ARIC Study -- App. E Calculation of the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient -- Index .

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