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Title: ActivEpi Companion Textbook by David G. Kleinbaum, Nancy Barker, Kevin M. Sullivan ISBN: 0-387-95574-7 Publisher: Springer-Verlag Pub. Date: 22 January, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: ActivEpi Companion Textbook and CD Rom
Comment: The ActivEpi CD-Rom and Companion Text are a great combination. ActiveEpi is very quantitative - the depth of the coverage is beyond almost all typical intro epi textbooks. ActivEpi covers the basic material of measures of disease frequency and study designs. The Lessons on bias-related issues are very detailed and go into much more detail than found in almost any other epi text. The issues of interaction and confounding are covered in detail, as well as how to assess these in stratification and logistic regression. Also very in-depth discussion on matched case-control studies. There are a large number of quizzes and exercises. Highly recommended.

Rating: 2
Summary: A First Edition Text in Need of Revision
Comment: The ActiveEpi Companion Text is a companion to the ActiveEpi CD-ROM. Although marketed as both a "general reference" and "self-contained" textbook, it is neither. Many epidemiologic concepts are discussed with insufficient depth and important shades of grey are not called to the reader's attention. The ActiveEpi Text also falls short as a companion for the CD. It contains some of the busiest and most unappealing graphics I've ever seen: 1). Black and white text with low resolution figures and diagrams in various shades of gray; 2). Excessive underlining, italicizing and bolding; 3). More than a half dozen fonts on most pages; and 4). Lines of text closely crammed together with numerous boxes of every size and shape on many pages. The text also has quite a few typos and grammatical errors. Just a few examples from the first chapter include "elements of each area respond to a single mouse clicks" (p. 3), "it would be worthwhile to review the them one more time" (p. 8), and "the Homerwork and Projects for each lesson" (p. 12).

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