Descriptive epidemiology focuses on time, place, characteristics, distribution and development of a hypothesis.
This describes occurence of a disease in terms of when it occurred, the place of occurence ,who is affected, what are the characteristic (presentation) signs and what guess can we make in terms of the presenting signs?
what is descriptive epidemiology
Will a sample descriptive statistics accurately estimate the underlying population's parameters?
No. They may be good approximations, though.
criteria for studying epidemiology
Epidemiology is a science, not an illness.
epidemiology of fractures is a medical book which deals about the fractures.
Noel S. Weiss has written: 'Clinical epidemiology' -- subject(s): Biometry, Clinical epidemiology, Epidemiologic Methods, Treatment Outcome, Epidemiology 'Exercises in epidemiology' -- subject(s): Epidemiology, Problems, exercises, Epidemiologic Methods, Problems and Exercises
Epidemiology - Community - was created on 2010-10-28.
International Journal of Epidemiology was created in 1972.
American College of Epidemiology was created in 1979.
European Journal of Epidemiology was created in 1985.
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology was created in 2004.