New Releases from NCBI BookshelfStatistical Methods in Cancer Research Volume V: Bias Assessment in Case–Control and Cohort Studies for Hazard Identification.​Statistical Methods in Cancer Research Volume V: Bias Assessment in Case–Control and Cohort Studies for Hazard Identification.

Observational epidemiology is used to identify the causes of cancer and other chronic diseases, to determine the effectiveness of interventions, and to understand reasons for differences in disease rates over time or across locations. Reviewers of observational epidemiology studies must judge whether a causal interpretation is supported, including whether chance, bias, and confounding can be reasonably ruled out.

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