Statistical Methods in Epidemiology

BS852: Statistical methods for interpreting statistical analysis and addressing confounding or interaction in observational studies

Review of Measures of Association Exposed Unexposed Disease a b m1 No Di...

Which Summary Measure to Use? Weighted averages are usually best Mantel-Haenszel is easy to c...

The objective of standardization is the compare the rates of a disease (or outcome) between popul...

The aim of matching is remove confounding by matching subjects to be similar on a potential confo...

Stratified analysis can be used to adjust for confounding, but the results can be difficult to ad...

In case-control studies matching cases and controls on a potential confounder improves the effici...

Survival analysis is a measure of time until an event occurs. It doesn't only measure death as an...

In survival data the dependent variable is always survival time (or time until an event with the ...

Review: Logistic and Proportional Hazards Regression Model Selection You can look at changes in ...

We use the Poisson Regression to model a risk ratio when we are interested not in whether somethi...

Statistical association analysis is not all about significance. There is much to consider when de...

Missing data is common in epidemiology studies, and always observed in longitudinal studies. Inad...