Modern Epidemiology Third, Mid-cycle revision Edition

I am a social scientist, not an epidemiologist, and I found this book to exceptionally good. It is the most current, complete, and clear presentation of methods for causal inference for observational (i.e. non-experimental) studies that I have seen. The things that really set this book apart for me include:1. It synthesizes contributions by Pearl and Rubin on the foundations of causal inference, and contributes its own perspective via the sufficient cause model. This is truly cutting edge, not to mention impeccably coherent.2. The first third of the book is on study design, including measurement, sampling, and defining effects. This is just fantastic. Many methods textbooks jump right into approaches to analyzing data with little time taken to discuss how to make the data in the first place. This book provides a major corrective to that tendency.3. In data analysis, a lot of attention is given to sparse data problems, which again is just great. So many textbooks overlook this problem, which is a huge omission.4. The data analysis section includes discussion of up-and-coming data mining and non-parametric methods (e.g. BART, boosted regression, etc.) to characterize response surfaces in the service of causal inference. That's amazingly cutting edge for a textbook.5. The meta-analysis section emphasizes simplicity and provides a very nice list of common errors that should be avoided.6. The references are to state of the art literature not only in epidemiology, but also in econometrics, education research, and statistics. It's great to see such cross-fertilization across disciplines, and it shows how these various disciplines are converging, it seems, on common analytical tools for causal inference in observational studies.There are lots of nice examples throughout the book too. For other social scientists out there, I highly recommend this as a primer on state of the art methods for carrying out observational studies.

So I will say this book is challenging to read( as a masters student). It may require you to reread certain text to understand concepts or ideas. But, I think it’s a good book to have if you’re looking for a good foundation to build upon.

I rate this textbook 5+ star for comprehensiveness ;as an encyclopedia with short explanation about terms and techniques with furthur reading. It is impossible to have everything indept or enough to operate within one book.However, the comprehensiveness trade off with so small and dense text plus very formal language. I give rate for easy reading only 3.5/5 Overall this book is nice for people who are going to another step from "Epidemioly beyond basic" by S&N

If you're an epidemiologist (or studying to be one), this is definitely a resource you need to have on hand. I've found it useful in studying for my PhD qualifying exams, and also as a reference in teaching students. It is the "go-to" whenever there is a question at hand.

The book was very detailed yet direct and to the point. The content is complex enough for doctorate level yet simple to understand at any level.

Easy to read? Heck no. The first edition authored by Rothman only is a much easier read. But this is a complete and detailed book, necessary for anyone who needs to or wants to understand epidemiology.

I do not understand the brouhaha behind this book and why it is so revered. I think the only reason why people may be thinking that this book amounts up to anything is because they fear they might be intimidated by the authors of the book, who use convoluted and seemingly intelligent language to make their statements look smart. Smart is simple. If you can not convey your message simply and clearly, then you should reconsider your attempts and try better. Epidemiology and its concepts, just like those of any other scientific discipline, are meant to be explained to people. Rothman, Greenland and Lash fail miserably if this were their goal. Indeed the book is full of mediocre and less than satisfactory explanations with extremely convoluted accounts and examples of epidemiologic concepts. Any student, who has to endure the torture to try to decipher what Rothman et al are trying to tell would surely be ending up having a cold distance from epidemiology and epidemiologic concepts and its practice. Indeed, I sincerely urge the readers to stop writing good reviews about this book. I sincerely urge any student of epidemiology or of any other scientific discipline to stay away from this book. You may come back to it only after you feel you have mastered the concepts from other literature well. Only then, you will be able to start to understand what this book is telling but then you will find that you have already understood it! The book is just using very difficult language but the concepts can be found elsewhere in more clear terms.This is an extremely poorly-written book. The fact that despite all criticism as to how difficult it is to read and understand and derive anything from this book is repeated many times in reviews and among readers but yet the book still receives high remarks completely baffles me. Perhaps this, indeed, is another prime potential to study a confounding effect. I am not sure the confounding factor though: Is it a strong will to look nice to Rothman and Greenland and Lash? Is it a strong will to evade extreme prejudice and stigmatization from a mob of epidemiologists who religiously and illogically love this book to death? Whatever it is, this book and its extreme poor quality in writing with its convoluted and very strange examples are doing a terrible job if it is to teach or cover the concepts of epidemiology. Take for instance the account of confounding. None of the account about confounding should be explained like that. Take a look at any other epidemiology book which does a much better job in explaining confounding. The chapter on DAGs is the ramblings of a madman. And examples are multiple in other chapters. Please, Prof. Rothman and friends. Please, rewrite this book and ask for all the copies published to be recalled immediately. Or just come clean and do not attempt to write it again. YOU ARE HURTING the efforts to understand and enjoy and practice the most eloquent and the most beautiful science of EPIDEMIOLOGY. Stop your terrible exposure on the innocent and beautiful minds of students of epidemiology because you are leading them to develop an adverse outcome of hating epidemiology.

Needed the book for class- and it was a good deal.

Todo muy bien, en tiempo y forma buenas condiciones, lo recomiendo mucho y consideraré futuras comprar, excelente precio también gracias

Prix abordable !

Arrivato ben prima del previsto, servizio ottimo. La bibbia dell'epidemiologia! consigliato ha chi già è pratico di statistica e ha già conoscenze di epidemiologia. Non per neofiti, potrebbe scoraggiare. Inoltre è in inglese, buono studio!

A brilliant guide to epidemiology.

This Book was very useful😍😍😍...I just love it