Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Interventions; 3. Evaluating interventions; 4. Randomized designs; 5. Nonrandomized designs; 6. Statistical analysis of intervention trials; 7. Methods for adjusting for baseline differences between treatment groups; 8. Time series analyses; 9. Special issues with intervention studies; 10. Research to action; 11. Conclusion; Index.

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This book teaches researchers how to evaluate health interventions and simplifies the process of analyzing data.

About the Author

Mitchell H. Katz is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco and Attending Physician, San Francisco General Hospital, and Director, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, USA.