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School of Medicine

Epidemiology and Community Health

EPID 606 Epidemiology II: Epidemiologic Methods

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: BIOS 543 and EPID 571. Focuses on examining the design, conduct and analysis of major epidemiologic studies and the methods to deal with the problems of bias, confounding and effect modification; using multivariate modeling techniques focusing on applications of logistic regression and Cox proprtional hazards models to answer relevant research questions; solving meta-analytic problems using fixed and random effects models; understanding specific research areas of disease screening and exposure assessment; writing a research paper based on literature review and data analyses of a large dataset demonstrating application of essential epidemiologic abd biostatistical principles.

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