6103 (v.7) Epidemiology and Biostatistics 582

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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
Prerequisite(s):	6102 (v.6) Health Research Methods 581 or any previous version     OR     304179 (v.2) Health Research Methods 481 or any previous version     OR     13152 (v.2) Health Research Methods 681 or any previous version
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 - two 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.