Research Activity
epidemiologic method
Subclass of:
Public Health Medicine; Investigative Techniques
Definitions related to epidemiologic methods:
  • Research techniques that focus on study designs and data gathering methods in human and animal populations.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
  • (epidemiological method) Epidemiological methods involve sophisticated statistics and higher mathematics. These methods allow epidemiologists to address issues like non-experimental studies of mechanistic questions in disease etiology, including studies of the impact of the social position of individuals in different social contexts.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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