CONTENTS // 1. Introduction to Epidemiologic Thinking 1 // 2. Pioneers in Epidemiology and Public Health 8 // 3. What Is Causation? 23 // 4. Measuring Disease Occurrence and Causal Effects 38 // 5. Types of Epidemiologic Studies 69 // 6. Infectious Disease Epidemiology 110 // 7. Dealing with Biases 124 // 8. Random Error and the Role of Statistics 148 // 9. Analyzing Simple Epidemiologic Data 164 // 10. Controlling Confounding by Stratifying Data 176 // 11. Measuring Interactions 198 // 12. Using Regression Models in Epidemiologic Analysis 211 // 13. Epidemiology in Clinical Settings 235 Appendix 254 // Index 257