HLTH 449
Epidemiologic Study Design & Analysis
Public Health
College of Life Sciences
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
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
Min
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
3
Fixed
0
Title
Study Validity
Learning Outcome
Describe and perform strategies for testing and controlling for threats to internal and external study validity.
Title
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)
Title
Study Design
Learning Outcome
Be familiar with the basic descriptive and analytic study designs and statistical measures used in epidemiological research.
