To Your Health
How to Understand What Research Tells Us about Risk
ISBN13: 9780195178708ISBN10: 019517870X
Hardback,
288 pages
Mar 2005,
In Stock
Price:
$55.00 (05)Table of Contents
Introduction: Why Did We Write This Book?
Part I
The Basics of Risk
1.
What is Risk?
2.
What is a Risk Factor?
3.
Are all Risk Factors Equal? Types of Risk Factors
4.
How Do We Know if Something Is an Important Risk Factor? Statistical and Clinical Significance
5.
How Do Risk Factors Work Together? Moderators, Mediators, and Other "Inter-actions"
Part II
How to Recognize Good and Bad Research
6.
Who Was in the Study and Why Does that Matter? Sampling
7.
What Is the Difference Between a Risk Factor and a Cause? Research Design
8.
What Else Should We Pay Attention To? Reliability and Validity of Measurements and Diagnoses
Part III
Cutting-Edge Approaches
9.
How Strong is the Risk Factor? Potency
10.
How Do We Do a Moderator-Mediator Analysis?
11.
How Do We Use Multiple Risk Factors? ROC Tree Methods
Part IV
Where Do We Go From Here?
12.
Where Are We Now?
13.
Making the Best of Good Studies
14.
Hope for the Future
Appendix: Mathematical Demonstrations
Glossary
