Prerequisites: Epid 600 and concurrent/previous enrollment in Biostat 560; or permission of the instructor. This course is intended for second year MPH students in the Department of Epidemiology and students in the Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology program.
Epid 656 is a one-semester practicum in epidemiologic data analysis designed to integrate and apply concepts learned in previous biostatistics and epidemiologic methods courses. Students learn practical skills to analyze and interpret epidemiologic data with continuous and dichotomous outcome variables through lectures and hands-on exercises.
EPID811
Critical Appraisal of Epidemiologic Studies
Winter
term(s)
3 Credit Hour(s)
Instructor(s):
Hoggatt, Katherine
Last offered Winter 2008
Prerequisites: Doctoral standing or Perm. Instr.
This course will act as the introductory epidemiologic course for doctoral students enrolling in the epidemiology Ph.D. program at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The course will proved a unifying examination of epidemiological constructs and their application to the critical evaluation of the literature. Topics will include: Importance of causal relationships; study designs that can demonstrate and test causation; interpretation of results from causation; selection of study subjects; error and bias in observation; confounding and chance variation; combination of results from several studies using several methodologies.
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