Veterinary epidemiology. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Authors: Thrusfield, M. V; Christley, Robert, 1968-
• Contents: Contributors From the preface to the first edition From the preface to the second edition From the preface to the third edition Preface to the fourth edition About the companion website 1 The development of veterinary medicine; Michael Thrusfield 2 The scope of epidemiology; Michael Thrusfield 3 Causality; Michael Thrusfield 4 Describing disease occurrence; Michael Thrusfield 5 Determinants of disease; Michael Thrusfield 6 The transmission and maintenance of infection; Michael Thrusfield 7 The ecology of disease; Michael Thrusfield 8 Patterns of disease; Michael Thrusfield 9 Comparative epidemiology; Michael Thrusfield 10 The nature of data; Michael Thrusfield 11 Data collection and management; Michael Thrusfield 12 Presenting numerical data; Michael Thrusfield and Robert Christley 13 Surveys; Michael Thrusfield and Helen Brown 14 Demonstrating association; Michael Thrusfield 15 Observational studies; Michael Thrusfield 16 Design considerations for observational studies; Robert Christley and Nigel French 17 Clinical trials; Michael Thrusfield 18 Validity in epidemiological studies; Robert Christley and Nigel French 19 Systematic reviews; Annette O’Connor, Jan Sargeant and Hannah Wood 20 Diagnostic testing; Michael Thrusfield 21 Surveillance; Michael Thrusfield 22 Statistical modelling; Robert Christley and Peter J. Diggle 23 Mathematical modelling; Michael Thrusfield 24 Risk analysis; Michael Thrusfield and Louise Kelly 25 Economics and veterinary epidemiology; Keith Howe and Michael Thrusfield 26 Health schemes; Michael Thrusfield 27 The control and eradication of disease; Michael Thrusfield Appendix I: Glossary of terms Appendix II: Basic mathematical notation and terms Appendix III: Some computer software Appendix IV: Veterinary epidemiology on the Internet Appendix V: Student’s t-distribution Appendix VI: Multipliers used in the construction of confidence intervals based on the Normal distribution, for selected levels of confidence Appendix VII: Values of exact 95% confidence limits for proportions Appendix VIII: Values from the Poisson distribution for calculating 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for observed numbers from 0 to 100 Appendix IX: The χ2 distribution Appendix X: Technique for selecting a simple random sample Appendix XI: Sample sizes Appendix XII: The probability of detecting a small number of cases in a population Appendix XIII: The probability of failure to detect cases in a population Appendix XIV: Sample sizes required for detecting disease with probability, p1, and threshold number of positives Appendix XV: Probabilities associated with the upper tail of the Normal distribution Appendix XVI: Lower- and upper-tail probabilities for Wx, the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney rank-sum statistic Appendix XVII: Critical values of T + for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test Appendix XVIII: Values of K for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two independent samples Appendix XIX: Values of K∗ for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two related samples Appendix XX: Common logarithms (log10) of factorials of the integers 1–999 Appendix XXI: The correlation coefficient Appendix XXII: The variance-ratio (F) distribution References Index
• Edition: 4th edition
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 636.08944; Veterinary epidemiology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781118280270; 9781118280263
• Related ISBNs: 9781118280287
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.