Important concepts in epidemiology

Teaching Epidemiology: A Guide for Teachers in Epidemiology, Public Health and Clinical Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Miettinen, Olli S ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Causation; Community research; Confounding; Epidemiology; Occurrence; Population; Rate comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921258517     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239481.003.002     Document Type: Chapter

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