Lecturer

Syllabus

Measures of disease frequency; case control studies; cohort studies; clinical trials.

Prerequisites

1. Inference: Basic concepts of estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; maximum likelihood.
2. MINITAB; some exposure to GLIM would be an advantage.

References

References

• Breslow, N.E. and Day, N.E. (1993) Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Vol. 1, The Analysis of Case Control Studies, Lyon: IARC Scientific Publication No.32.
• Clayton, D. and Hills, M. (1993) Statistical Models in Epidemiology, Oxford Science Publications.
• Kleinbaum, D.G., Kupper, L.L. and Morgenstern, H. (1982) Epidemiologic Research, Lifetime Learning Publication.
• Pocock, S.J. (1983) Clinical Trials, Wiley, Chichester.
• Schlesselman, J.J. (1982) Case Control Studies, Oxford University Press.

Last updated: 19 February 2003.