Advanced Epidemiology

Catalog description

GR This course provides the foundation skills for independent analysis of epidemiological data. Topics to be covered include the analysis of vital statistics data, statistical analysis of simple epidemiological measures, identification and control of confounders in epidemiological data, logistic regression, and proportional hazards modeling. At the end of the semester, students will be able to analyze data from matched and unmatched case-control studies, case cohort studies, and traditional cohort designs. The course includes a mandatory statistical computing laboratory.