. Chapter 1 The development of veterinary medicine . Chapter 2 The scope of epidemiology . Chapter 3 Causality . Chapter 4 Describing disease occurrence . Chapter 5 Determinants of disease . Chapter 6 The transmission and maintenance of infection . Chapter 7 The ecology of disease . Chapter 8 Patterns of disease . Chapter 9 Comparative epidemiology . Chapter 10 The nature of data . Chapter 11 Data collection and management . Chapter 12 Presenting numerical data . Chapter 13 Surveys . Chapter 14 Demonstrating association . Chapter 15 Observational studies . Chapter 16 Design considerations for observational studies . Chapter 17 Clinical trials . Chapter 18 Validity in epidemiological studies . Chapter 19 Systematic reviews . Chapter 20 Diagnostic testing . Chapter 21 Surveillance . Chapter 22 Statistical modelling . Chapter 23 Mathematical modelling . Chapter 24 Risk analysis . Chapter 25 Economics and veterinary epidemiology . Chapter 26 Health schemes . Chapter 27 The control and eradication of disease . General reading . Appendices . Appendix I Glossary of terms . Appendix II Basic mathematical notation and terms . Appendix III Some computer software . Appendix IV Veterinary epidemiology on the Internet . Appendix V Student´s t-distribution . Appendix VI Multipliers used in the construction of confidence intervals based on the Normal distribution, for selected levels of con... . Appendix VII Values of exact 95% confidence limits for proportions (From Beyer, 1968) . Appendix VIII Values from the Poisson distribution for calculating 90%, 95% and 99% confidence intervals for observed numbers from 0 to 100 . Appendix IX The ?2 distribution . Appendix X Technique for selecting a simple random sample . Appendix XI Sample sizes . Appendix XII The probability of detecting a small number of cases in a population (Adapted from Cannon and Roe, 1982) . Appendix XIII The probability of failure to detect cases in a population (From Cannon and Roe, 1982) . Appendix XIV Sample sizes required for detecting disease with probability, p1, and threshold number of positives . Appendix XV Probabilities associated with the upper tail of the Normal distribution (Derived from Beyer, 1981) . Appendix XVI Lower- and upper-tail probabilities for Wx, the Wilcoxon–Mann–Whitney rank-sum statistic (From Siegel and Castellan, 1988) . Appendix XVII Critical values of T+ for the Wilcoxon signed ranks test (From Siegel and Castellan, 1988) . Appendix XVIII Values of K for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two independent samples (From Altman et al., 2000) . Appendix XIX Values of K* for calculating 95% confidence intervals for the difference between population medians for two related samples (From Altman et al., 2000) . Appendix XX Common logarithms (log10) of factorials of the integers 1–999 (From Lentner, 1982) . Appendix XXI The correlation coefficient . Appendix XXII The variance-ratio (F) distribution . References . Index . EULA