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2024-2025 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog 
    
 
  Nov 27, 2024
 
2024-2025 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
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EPIDEM 2180 - FUNDAMENTALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL METHODS


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intermediate epidemiology methods course will focus on the use of standard study designs and statistical methods for answering research questions, the interpretation of results obtained from these methods, and consideration of these issues from a causal inference perspective. Students are expected to have some statistical knowledge and will use SAS, a statistical software package, to analyze data sets. Students will be expected to participate in class discussions that extend and apply the topics covered in lectures to epidemiology research articles and to exercises involving epidemiology in practice.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EPIDEM 2110 and BIOST 2041; PLAN: EPIDEM-DPH, EPIDEM-PHD, EPIDEM-MS, or EPIDEM-MPH


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