This is a basic course in epidemiology which also covers a variety of analytic topics not commonly addressed in elementary statistics courses. This course will introduce students to the field of epidemiology. Students will critically evaluate articles in the epidemiologic literature and examine epidemiologic methods including:

• data collection
• study design and statistical analysis
• ratios
• relative risk
• contingency tables
• logistic and Poisson
• measurement error and exposure misclassification
• imputation of missing values
• multilevel regression models in epidemiology

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