Overview
Description
Students will apply epidemiologic concepts they have learned in previous coursework to the critical evaluation of epidemiologic studies published in the literature.
Requirements
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- evaluate published epidemiologic studies.
- assess statistical models to investigate mediation, confounding, interaction, and effect modification in the context of epidemiologic research.
- critically evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different study designs with respect to a given research question.
- recognize methodological challenges in epidemiologic studies.
- identify threats to validity (selection bias, confounding, information bias) in specific study contexts and identify issues of internal validity versus external validity.
- understand how Type 1 and Type 2 error influence interpretation of epidemiologic study results.