Veterinary Epidemiology

Mike Thrusfield is at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

From the preface to the first edition; From the preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; The development of veterinary medicine; The scope of epidemiology; Causality; Describing disease occurrence; Determinants of disease; The transmission and maintenance of infection; The ecology of disease; Patterns of disease; The nature of data; Surveillance; Data collection and management; Presenting numerical data; Surveys; Demonstrating association; Observational studies; Clinical trials; Diagnostic testing; Comparative epidemiology; Modelling; The economics of disease; Health schemes; The control and eradication of disease; General reading; Appendices 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 Chi-squared 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, pmin, and threshold number of positives (in brackets) (probability of incorrectly concluding that a healthy population is diseased [in square brackets]) 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 fore two independent samples Appendix XIX: Values of K* for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians fore two related samples Appendix XX: Common logarithms (log10) of factorials of the integers 1-999 Appendix XXI: The correlation coefficient Appendix XXII: Some veterinary observational studies Appendix XXIII: The variance-ratio (F) distribution References Index