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Elsewhere in this book we have covered topics that are also relevant to epidemiology. This chapter is focused on some specific theoretical and methodological concepts unique to epidemiology, such as measures of disease frequency, measures of association, standardisation, and types of epidemiological studies.
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Marchevsky, D. (2000). Epidemiology. In: Critical Appraisal of Medical Literature. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4205-6_13
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