Epidemiological statistical evaluation of cancer; describes research design, cohort studies and statistical methods.
"This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anybody engaged in the analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data. Many of the techniques contained are applicable to the study of mortality data from other causes, so that anybody concerned with mortality statistics should find it useful."
--International Journal of Epidemiology
"It should find its way into the library of every serious researcher in the field of chronic disease epidemiology." --Chronic Diseases in Canada
"Contains a very comprehensive development of statistical methods for epidemiologic cohort studies of cancer. . . .The book's detailed examples and extensive bibliography allow its use as an effective text. . . .Can be a valuable reference for both epidemiologists and statisticians." --Journal of
the American Statistical Association
"This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anybody engaged in the analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data. Many of the techniques contained are applicable to the study of mortality data from other causes, so that anybody concerned with mortality statistics should find it useful."
--International Journal of Epidemiology
"It should find its way into the library of every serious researcher in the field of chronic disease epidemiology." --Chronic Diseases in Canada
"Contains a very comprehensive development of statistical methods for epidemiologic cohort studies of cancer. . . .The book's detailed examples and extensive bibliography allow its use as an effective text. . . .Can be a valuable reference for both epidemiologists and statisticians." --Journal of
the American Statistical Association
"This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anybody engaged in the analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data. Many of the techniques contained are applicable to the study of mortality data from other causes, so that anybody concerned with mortality statistics should find it useful." --International Journal of Epidemiology
"It should find its way into the library of every serious researcher in the field of chronic disease epidemiology." --Chronic Diseases in Canada
"Contains a very comprehensive development of statistical methods for epidemiologic cohort studies of cancer. . . .The book's detailed examples and extensive bibliography allow its use as an effective text. . . .Can be a valuable reference for both epidemiologists and statisticians." --Journal of the American Statistical Association
"This book is to be thoroughly recommended to anybody engaged in the analysis of cancer incidence and mortality data. Many of the techniques contained are applicable to the study of mortality data from other causes, so that anybody concerned with mortality statistics should find it useful." --International Journal of Epidemiology
"It should find its way into the library of every serious researcher in the field of chronic disease epidemiology." --Chronic Diseases in Canada
"Contains a very comprehensive development of statistical methods for epidemiologic cohort studies of cancer. . . .The book's detailed examples and extensive bibliography allow its use as an effective text. . . .Can be a valuable reference for both epidemiologists and statisticians." --Journal of the American Statistical Association