Considers principles and methods of epidemiology. Covers measures of disease frequency, descriptive epidemiology, overview of study designs, measures of excess risk, causal inference, screening, measurement error, misclassification, effect modification, and confounding. First in a two course sequence.
Prefix
EPI
Number
512
Credits
4
Variable Credit?
No
Credit/no-credit only?
No
Joint Class?
No
Offered
Autumn