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Epidemiology Basics

Need more help understanding Epidemiology Basics?

Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
From BMJ, a great ebook for learning about Epidemiology and Statistics! **Scroll down the page to click into the chapters.
What is Epidemiology?
This is the first chapter from the BMJ book: Epidemiology for the Uninitiated
Guide to Biostatistics
From MedPage Today, this guide has useful information for understanding fundamentals.

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Finding Articles with Statistics

Best Bets for Finding Articles with many Statistics

The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) tends to have articles with many statistics (browse through various weeks).

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Search for a condition/topic of interest in the large biomedical database PubMed. Try the following search strategy:

condition and statistics and "p value"

For example: stroke and statistics and "p value"

Note: in the above examples, the quote marks around p value tell the database to search the words next to each other, exactly as displayed between the quote marks