Advanced Epidemiologic Methods: The Essentials is a concise, but thorough volume that provides a solid grounding in core methodologic issues. The book takes a streamlined approached on prevalence studies, cohort studies, demographic studies of morbidity and mortality, case-control studies, randomized trials, ecologic studies, bias and confounding. Organized according to study design, with each chapter building on those preceding it, the book provides detailed examples throughout, using data tables and graphs to help reinforce methodologic points.