HLTH 449

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Epidemiologic Study Design & Analysis

Course Description

Building on courses in epidemiologic methods (HLTH 345), data management (HLTH 440), and biostatistics (HLTH 447), HLTH 449: Epidemiologic Study Design and Analysis helps students identify appropriate study designs and statistical analyses for specific public health research questions and implement these design and analysis strategies using statistical software and epidemiologic datasets.

When Taught

Fall

Credit Hours

Min

Fixed/Max

Lecture Hours

Fixed

Lab Hours

Fixed

Learning Outcomes

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Study Validity

Learning Outcome

Describe and perform strategies for testing and controlling for threats to internal and external study validity.

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Assess Epidemiological Literature

Learning Outcome

Critique assessment of selected papers in the epidemiological literature. These papers will represent analytic epidemiological study designs (case-control, cohort, experimental)

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Study Design

Learning Outcome

Be familiar with the basic descriptive and analytic study designs and statistical measures used in epidemiological research.