Section outline

  • Lecture: Measures of Disease Association II and Measures of Attribution

    Measures of association in a case-control study; equivalence of odds ratio to other measures of association depending on control sampling: case-cohort, incidence density, or prevalent; measures of attribution: attribution among exposed vs attribution in an overall population.

    Faculty:  Ann Schwartz

    Location:  China Basin 6702

    • Prospectus:

    • Announcements Week 5 File

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

    • Session Slides:

    • Disease Association II and Attribution 2014 File

    • Required Reading:

    • S & N: Ch. 3, including sections 3.2.2 and 3.4.2; Appendix A4 and A5 (p. 438 - 442)

    • Optional Reading:

    • Greenland S and Robins JM. Conceptual problems in the definition and interpretation of attributable fractions. American Journal of Epidemiology 128:1185-1197, 1988. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Rockhill B, Newman B, and Weinberg C. Use and misuse of population attributable fractions. American Journal of Public Health 88:15-19, 1998. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02
    • Rundle AG, Vineis P, and Ahsan H. Design options for molecular epidemiology research within cohort studies. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 14:1899-907, 2005. File
      Not available unless: Your ID number contains 02

    • Assignment: Problem Set 5

    • Problem Set 5 Disease Association II 2014 File
    • fracturegenotype File

    • Assignment Due Date:  October 21, 2014

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