Main description:

Organisation of this book stems from the elements of a research proposal, allowing readers to learn where epidemiology and biostatistics skills and knowledge fit in the research process. The reader will gain knowledge and skills in developing a proposal, analysing data and writing an article. This book practically demonstrates the research process with the author's own PhD research project as an example, as well as numerous other examples. It contains real examples of proposal, questionnaire and data files, which have been linked to several published articles in peer-reviewed indexed journals. The readers are shown how to analyse the data with SPSS and STATA software and reproduce the analysis outputs of the book and findings of the linked published articles. It also includes numerous tables, figures, boxes and cross-references to illustrate epidemiological and statistical concepts as its title indicates.