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340.752.01
Epidemiologic Methods 2

Location
East Baltimore
Term
2nd Term
Department
Epidemiology
Credit(s)
5
Academic Year
2012 - 2013
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
M, W, F, 8:30 - 9:50am
Lab Times
Monday, 10:00 - 11:50am (01)
Friday, 10:00 - 11:50am (01)
Monday, 10:00 - 11:50am (02)
Friday, 10:00 - 11:50am (02)
Monday, 10:00 - 11:50am (03)
Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:50am (03)
Monday, 10:00 - 11:50am (04)
Wednesday, 10:00 - 11:50am (04)
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

Epidemiologic Methods 1 (340.751), Statistical Methods in Public Health I (140.621) or Methods in Biostatistics I (140.651), and prior or concurrent enrollment in Statistical Methods in Public Health II (140.622) or Methods in Biostatistics II (140.652).

Description
Second offering in the Epidemiologic Methods sequence. Builds on the concepts of epidemiologic reasoning, causal inference, and cohort design taught in Epidemiologic Methods 1. Provides a detailed presentation of threats to validity (information, confounding and selection bias), precision, and study generalizability. Discusses a wide range of epidemiologic designs in detail, together with their advantages and limitations. Provides experience through laboratory exercises with epidemiologic methods and inference, issues in study design, calculation of measures of association, and literature interpretation.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Understand how epidemiologist evaluate whether an observed association likely reflects a causal relationship
  2. Compare and contrast epidemiologic study designs and identify questions that can be appropriately answered with these different designs
  3. Recognize and analyze the most important threats to validity: selection, information and confounding bias
  4. Understand how to analyze and interpret effect modification
Enrollment Restriction
No auditors permitted.
Special Comments

You must register for one lab 340.952 when you register for this course. Labs begin at 10:15 AM.