Statistical analysis of epidemiologic data, 3rd ed

S Selvin, Oxford University Press, £39.95, pp 492. ISBN 0-19-517280-9 This considerably updated edition contains common procedures and methods that are difficult to find in a single textbook. All the procedures are interestingly illustrated with one or more examples. The first chapter is dedicated to measures of risk (rate, risk, incidence, and prevalence). A difference with other similar textbooks is the inclusion in the chapter of basic measures in …