Epidemiological Research: An Introduction An Introduction
Having last year published “Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM” and also “Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts,” Miettinen now – this time with collaboration from his junior colleague I. Karp – brings out this further introduction into
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O.S. Miettinen • I. Karp
Epidemiological Research: An Introduction
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O.S. Miettinen McGill University Universit´e de Montr´eal Montr´eal, QC Canada
I. Karp Universit´e de Montr´eal Montr´eal, QC Canada
Cornell University New York, NY USA
ISBN 978-94-007-4536-0 ISBN 978-94-007-4537-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-4537-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg New York London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012942327 © Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Permissions for use may be obtained through RightsLink at the Copyright Clearance Center. Violations are liable to prosecution under the respective Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
‘In my life ever since medical-school graduation half-a-century ago, I’ve had the dream of reaching true understanding of the theory of the research that would best serve to advance the knowledge-base of medicine, of genuinely scientific medicine.’ Olli Miettinen wrote this a year or so ago in his Epidemiological Research: Terms and Concepts. For those who have had the privilege to witness his odyssey since the 1970s, the current book comes as both a wonderful revisit of the past and a great leap into the future. Miettinen’s text accompanying his course in the 1970s at Harvard was ‘the first systematic introduction to theoretical epidemiology’ (Greenland) and can be viewed as the start of ‘modern epidemiology’ (Morabia). But he never publishe
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