1st Edition

Association Models in Epidemiology Study Designs, Modeling Strategies, and Analytic Methods

By Hongjie Liu Copyright 2025
485 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

485 Pages 106 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Association Models in Epidemiology: Study Designs, Modeling Strategies, and Analytic Methods is written by an epidemiologist for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners who will use regression techniques to analyze data. It focuses on association models rather than prediction models. The book targets students and working professionals who lack bona fide modeling experts but are... Read more

1. Association Models in Analytic Epidemiologic Research: Principles and Methods
2. Modeling for Cohort Studies: Incidence Rate Ratio, Risk Ratio, and Risk Difference
3. Modeling for Cohort Studies: Time-to-Event Outcome
4. Modeling for Cohort Studies: Propensity Score Method
5. Modeling for Traditional Case-Control Studies
6. Modeling for Matched Case-Control Studies
7. Modeling for Population-Based Case-Control Studies
8. Modeling for Cross-Sectional Studies.
9. Modeling for Ecologic Studies
10. Spline Regression Models: Beyond Linearity and Categorization

        

Biography

Hongjie Liu is professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. He earned his doctoral degree in epidemiology from the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research focuses on the epidemiology of infectious diseases and research methodology. He has served as the principal investigator, co-investigator, and biostatistics consultant in over 30 research projects and published 125 peer-reviewed papers. Over the past two decades, Dr. Liu has taught intermediate and advanced epidemiology to master's and doctoral students. His courses emphasize the integration of epidemiologic principles with regression techniques.