Dr. David Richardson, Occupational Epidemiology Program Director, Associate Dean of Research, and Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health at the University of California, Irvine, recently co-authored and edited Bias Assessment in Case-Control and Cohort Studies for Hazard Identification (Volume V in the IARC Statistical Methods in Cancer Research series).
This free publication provides a wide range of examples of practical and accessible methods that can be used to assess the potential impact of biases on the results of epidemiological studies and outlines the process for integrating these bias assessments into the evidence synthesis. Throughout the chapters, readers will find numerous examples derived from cancer epidemiology, and links to additional resources like online codes or spreadsheets.
Examples and methods in the book are presented in a way that are accessible to epidemiologists, researchers, publication reviewers, and statisticians who do not have extensive statistical training.
Berrington de González A, Richardson DB, Schubauer-Berigan MK, editors. Bias Assessment in Case–Control and Cohort Studies for Hazard Identification (Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Volume V) IARC Scientific Publication No. 171.
This publication is available for download via: https://publications.iarc.who.int/634
