《应用R软件和Epicalc程序包分析流行病学数据》前4章介绍R软件的概念和一些重要的基本元素，比如标量、向量、矩阵、数组和数据框架的简单处理方法。第5章介绍一些简单的数据分析。第6章介绍日期和时间变量，并在第7章通过一些数据集来得到完全的诠释，描述性统计量和行列表伴随自动生成的图形，使得重要的结果能得到更全面的展示。第8章通过行列表来观察暴发，对各种类型的风险评估比如风险比率，可以用数字和图形来显示。第9章数据集的分析得到进一步扩展，处理不同水平间的联系或0R值，并对如何分层作表，计算Mantel．Haenzsel的OR值，以及0R值的同质性检验进行了详细的解释，同时附以图形说明。结合图形，混杂这个概念能够得以更好的理解。

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