305871 (v.2) Epidemiology and Biostatistics Honours 482



 

Area:School of Public Health
Contact Hours:4.0
Credits:25.0
Lecture:1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Laboratory:1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Epidemiological research, association and causation, rates and ratios, standardisation, bias, confounding and sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests. Principles and evaluation of clinical trials, cohort and case control studies. Overview of multivariate analyses- 2 way ANOVA, ANCOVA, MANOVA, simple and multiple linear regression, intraclass correlation and Kappa statistics. Use of statistical software to create, edit and analyse research data. Illustrations of research conducted in medicine and public health.

 

 

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