Includes bibliographical references and index.

The burden of mental illness / Evelyn J. Bromet and Ezra Susser -- The arc of epidemiology / Ezra Susser and Alfredo Morabia -- Searching for the causes of mental disorders / Ezra Susser ... [et al.] -- What is a cause? / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Detecting causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Study designs / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Relationships among causes / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Measures of association / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Prototypical cohort study / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Diversity of cohort studies / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Causal inference: a thought experiment / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Confounding: what it is and what can be done / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Unequal attrition under different types of follow-up / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz --

Differential misclassification / Ezra Susser and Sharon Schwartz -- Logic of the case control design / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Applications of the case control study / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls / Sharon Schwartz, Alfredo Morabia and Ezra Susser -- Comparability and the case control study / Alfredo Morabia, Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Biologic studies in psychiatry / Jack M. Gorman and Ezra Susser -- Choosing cases in biologic psychiatry / Evelyn J. Bromet ... [et al.] -- Choosing controls in biologic psychiatry / Sharon Schwartz, Ezra Susser and Jack M. Gorman -- Gauging the precision of measures of association / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Using significance tests in establishing associations / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Planning studies: estimating power and sample size / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Adjustment for covariates / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Event time analysis / Melissa D. Begg and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Assessing heterogeneity of effects / Alfredo Morabia and Michaeline Bresnahan -- Integrating epidemiology with genetics / Mary-Claire King , Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser -- Genetic association studies / Habibul Ahsan, Gary A. Heiman, and Ezra Susser -- Modern family history studies / Regina Zimmerman, Habibul Ahsan, and Ezra Susser --

Twin studies of heritability / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Genetic linkage studies / Susan E. Hodge ... [et al.] -- Designs for the genomic era / Mary-Claire King, Habibul Ahsan and Ezra Susser -- Eco-epidemiology / Ezra Susser, Sharon Schwartz and Alfredo Morabia -- Causal explanation within a risk factor framework / Sharon Schwartz and Ezra Susser -- Causal explanation outside the black box / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser -- Dependent and dynamic processes / Sharon Schwartz, Ana V. Diez Roux and Ezra Susser.