Epidemiology kept simple : an introduction to traditional and modern epidemiology / B. Burt Gerstman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Epidemiology past and present -- Causal concepts -- Epidemiologic measures -- Descriptive epidemiology -- Introduction to epidemiologic study design -- Experimental studies -- Observational cohort studies -- Case control studies -- Error in epidemiologic research -- Screening for disease -- The infectious disease process -- Outbreak investigation -- Confidence intervals and p values -- Mantel/Haenszel methods -- Statistical interaction : effect measure modification -- Case definitions and disease classification -- Survival analysis -- Current life tables -- Random distribution of cases in time and space.