Advanced Epidemiology and Modelling Course

Study Designs in Epidemiology

An overview of different study designs and how to decide which to use

Sampling

Sample size and sample size calculations Sampling methods

Validity and Precision

Accuracy, precision, reliability and validity. Cronbach's alpha, strategies for enhancing accuracy and strategies for enhancing precision

Exercise - Sensitivity and Specificity

 

Confounding Bias

Different types of bias, and ways to try and reduce it

Interaction

choosing the right analysis to look at effect modifiers/ interactions

Designing a study

Using the TANDEM study as a case, looking at the process of designing a study

Exercise - Study design

Exercise relating to study design TANDEM case

Logistic Regression

 

Survival analysis

Kaplan Meier product limit estimates of survival. Cox proportional hazards model

Poisson Regression

 

Poisson Regression further reading 2

A Modified Poisson regression approach to prospective studies with binary data

Poisson Regression further reading 1

Comparison of robustness to outliers between robust poisson models & log-binomial models when estimating relative risks for binary outcomes: a simulation study

Multilevel modelling

Introduction to multilevel modelling

An example: The IMPACT Model

 

Markov models: Theory

 

Economics Concepts useful in Modelling

 

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