Section outline

  • Lecture: Measures of Disease Association I

    Measures of association in cross-sectional and cohort studies; 2 x  2 tables; prevalence ratio and prevalence odds ratio; advantages and disadvantages of odds ratios; risk, rate, and hazard ratios; difference vs ratio measures; describing measures of association

    Faculty:  Ann Schwartz

    Location:  China Basin 6702

    • Session Slides:

    • Disease Association I 2014 File

    • Session Audio/Video Recording (Access restricted to registered students):

    • Required Reading:

    •   S & N: Ch. 3, except sections 3.2.2 and 3.4.2 (i.e., skip attributable risk); Appendix A3 (P. 435 - 438)

    • Schulman et al. The effect of race and sex on physician's recommendations for cardiac catheterization. NEJM 340:618 – 626, 1999. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Schwartz et al. Misunderstandings about the effects of race and sex on physicians' referrals for cardiac catheterization. NEJM 341:279 – 283, 1999. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Optional Reading:

    • Cummings P. The relative merits of risk ratios and odds ratios. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 163:438-445, 2009. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Holcomb et al. An odd measure of risk: use and misuse of the odds ratio. Obstet Gynecol 98:685-688, 2001. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Cummings P. Methods for estimating adjusted risk ratios. The Stata Journal 9:175-196, 2009. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Poole C. On the origin of risk relativism. Epidemiology 21:3-9, 2010. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: Problem Set 4

    • Problem Set 4 Disease Association 2014 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  October 14, 2014

    • Assignment Answer Key (Access restricted to registered students):