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Methodology    
Precision, time, and cost: a comparison of three sampling designs in an emergency setting
Megan Deitchler, Hedwig Deconinck, Gilles Bergeron
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:6 (2 May 2008)
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Commentary    
The role of causal reasoning in understanding Simpson's paradox, Lord's paradox, and the suppression effect: covariate selection in the analysis of observational studies
Onyebuchi A Arah
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:5 (26 February 2008)
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Analytic perspective    
Cars, corporations, and commodities: Consequences for the social determinants of health
James Woodcock, Rachel Aldred
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:4 (21 February 2008)
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Analytic perspective    
Issues in the construction of wealth indices for the measurement of socio-economic position in low-income countries
Laura D Howe, James R Hargreaves, Sharon RA Huttly
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:3 (30 January 2008)
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Analytic perspective    
Simpson's Paradox, Lord's Paradox, and Suppression Effects are the same phenomenon the reversal paradox
Yu-Kang Tu, David Gunnell, Mark S Gilthorpe
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:2 (22 January 2008)
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Editorial    
Open access for the non-English-speaking world: overcoming the language barrier
Isaac CH Fung
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2008, 5:1 (4 January 2008)
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Analytic perspective    
Estimating the role of casual contact from the community in transmission of Bordetella pertussis to young infants
Aaron M Wendelboe, Michael G Hudgens, Charles Poole, Annelies Van Rie
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:15 (19 October 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Geographic variation and localised clustering of congenital anomalies in Great Britain
Ben G Armstrong, Helen Dolk, Sam Pattenden, Martine Vrijheid, Maria Loane, Judith Rankin, Chris E Dunn, Chris Grundy, Lenore Abramsky, Patricia A Boyd, David Stone, Diana Wellesley
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:14 (6 July 2007)
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Editorial    
Methods for health surveys in difficult settings: charting progress, moving forward
Kristof Bostoen, Oleg O Bilukha, Bridget Fenn, Oliver W Morgan, Clarence C Tam, Annemarie ter Veen, Francesco Checchi
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:13 (1 June 2007)
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Commentary    
Who should be undertaking population-based surveys in humanitarian emergencies?
Paul B Spiegel
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:12 (1 June 2007)
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Commentary    
Mortality and nutrition surveys by Non-Governmental organisations. Perspectives from the CE-DAT database
Olivier Degomme, Debarati Guha-Sapir
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:11 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
A review of methodology and analysis of nutrition and mortality surveys conducted in humanitarian emergencies from October 1993 to April 2004
Claudine Prudhon, Paul B Spiegel
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:10 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Wanted: studies on mortality estimation methods for humanitarian emergencies, suggestions for future research
Working Group for Mortality Estimation in Emergencies
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:9 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Don't spin the pen: two alternative methods for second-stage sampling in urban cluster surveys
Rebecca F Grais, Angela MC Rose, Jean-Paul Guthmann
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:8 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Optimisation of the T-square sampling method to estimate population sizes
Kristof Bostoen, Zaid Chalabi, Rebecca F Grais
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:7 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
Sampling in health geography: reconciling geographical objectives and probabilistic methods. An example of a health survey in Vientiane (Lao PDR)
Julie Vallée, Marc Souris, Florence Fournet, Audrey Bochaton, Virginie Mobillion, Karine Peyronnie, Gérard Salem
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:6 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
The use of personal digital assistants for data entry at the point of collection in a large household survey in southern Tanzania
Kizito Shirima, Oscar Mukasa, Joanna Armstrong Schellenberg, Fatuma Manzi, Davis John, Adiel Mushi, Mwifadhi Mrisho, Marcel Tanner, Hassan Mshinda, David Schellenberg
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:5 (1 June 2007)
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Methodology    
Assessing household wealth in health studies in developing countries: a comparison of participatory wealth ranking and survey techniques from rural South Africa
James R Hargreaves, Linda A Morison, John SS Gear, Julia C Kim, Mzamani B Makhubele, John DH Porter, Charlotte Watts, Paul M Pronyk
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:4 (1 June 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Age standardisation an indigenous standard?
Bridget Robson, Gordon Purdie, Fiona Cram, Shirley Simmonds
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:3 (14 May 2007)
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Analytic perspective    
Early efforts in modeling the incubation period of infectious diseases with an acute course of illness
Hiroshi Nishiura
Emerging Themes in Epidemiology 2007, 4:2 (11 May 2007)
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