EPDC 646 ADVANCED EPIDEMIOLOGY

This course provides students the opportunity to acquire skills in data analysis, interpretation and hypothesis generation. Topics covered include: Causation – Koch’s postulate and modern causality structure, Study design specifics – Case-Control studies, case and control selection, Cohort studies – prospective, retrospective, Analytical; Cross-sectional studies, Experimental studies – randomized trial, Measures of association and impact -  2 by 2 tables, absolute risk, relative risks and odds ratios, attributable risk, confounding and effect modification – random error and systematic error, types of bias, control of confounding.