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Principles and Methods of Epidemiological Research and Their Application to Psychiatric Illness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

S. L. Morrison
S. L. Morrison*
Affiliation:
Social Medicine Research Unit of the Medical Research Council, London Hospital
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May I begin by qualifying the title of this paper? I can only illustrate some broad principles and a few of the methods that are used in epidemiology today—there is no attempt to be comprehensive.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 105 , Issue 441 , October 1959 , pp. 999 - 1011
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1959 

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