TY - JOUR
AU - Meade, Tom
AB - Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association International Journal of Epidemiology 2008;37:1194–1196 The Author 2008; all rights reserved. Book Reviews The Development Of Modern Epidemiology: Personal Reports is an indispensable and respected component of the from Those Who Were There. Walter W. Holland, Jørn Olsen, research on any work on humans (apart from the Charles Du V. Florey (eds) Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 1–456. most basic laboratory science). Most papers or grant ISBN 978-1-19-856954-1 applications nowadays that do not consider the popu- lation picture into which a new clinical or further This is a fascinating book, very well worth a read in epidemiological study is to fit would be seriously sections if not in its entirety. With one possible incomplete. The importance for investigators to ‘know exception, the range of topics covered—which include their data properly’ before going on to rely on highly methodology as well as aspects of specific diseases—is sophisticated statistical and computing methods comprehensive, and the chapters have been written is another example. Only those in their 60s or older by authors from all over the world. Each chapter would have had any experience of using edge- begins with the 
TI - The Development Of Modern Epidemiology: Personal Reports from Those Who Were There. Walter W. Holland, Jørn Olsen, Charles Du V. Florey (eds)
JF - International Journal of Epidemiology
DO - 10.1093/ije/dyn037
DA - 2008-10-07
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SP - 1194
EP - 1195
VL - 37
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -