Das Fachgebiet des Public Health hat in den letzten Jahren in Deutschland breites Interesse gewonnen. Die Epidemiologie ist ein Querschnittsfach mit vielfältigen Beziehungen zu anderen medizinischen Fachrichtungen. Bei diesem Buch fällt besonders der technisch solide und sichere methodische...

Many case-control studies have shown a protective effect of vaccinations on the risk of sudden unexplained death (SUD). In this paper we compare the properties of different statistical methods in this situation, when the first vaccination appears to reduce the overall risk of an event (SUD). The...

In this paper, we deal with the analysis of case series. The self-controlled case series method (SCCS) was developed to analyse the temporal association between time-varying exposure and an outcome event. We apply the SCCS method to the vaccination data of the German Examination Survey for...

Capture–Recapture methods aim to estimate the size of an elusive target population. Each member of the target population carries a count of identifications by some identifying mechanism—the number of times it has been identified during the observational period. Only positive counts are...