Topic:
Epidemiology & Surveillance
Format:
Informational Brief
Time:
40 minutes
Level:
Introductory
University:
University of North Carolina
PERLC:
University of North Carolina PERLC
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Description:
This issue of the ERIC Notebook offered by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health gives an introduction to common measures and statistics in epidemiological literature. It includes examples and practice questions.
Learning Objectives:
- Define and calculate common epidemiologic measures of disease frequency: prevalence, risk, rate, and odds
- Define and calculate common epidemiologic measures of association: risk difference, risk ratio, rate ratio, and odds ratio
- Define P-values and confidence intervals
- Describe how P-values and confidence intervals are used
- Distinguish between crude and adjusted values
PHEP Capabilities:
Public Health Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation