Section outline

  • Lecture: Course Introduction; Study Design
    Distinction between designs where the unit of observation is a group of individuals vs. the individual; ecological fallacy; types of studies with observations on the individual; cohort study as gold standard of observational designs; concept of study base linking cohort and case-control designs.

    Faculty:  Jeffrey Martin and Ann Schwartz

    Location:  China Basin 6702

    • Prospectus:

    • Course Introduction URL
    • Course Introduction File

    • Session Slides:

    • Study Design 2013 File

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

    • Required Reading:

    • S & N: Ch. 1, p. 3 – 32.

    • Optional Reading:

      Vandenbroucke BMJ Prospective vs retrospective: Whats in a name. BMJ 32: 249-250, 1991

      Vandenbroucke JP and Pearce N. Case control studies: Basic Concepts. International Journal of Epidemiology 41: 1480-1489, 2012

    • Assignment:  Problem Set 1 (to be distributed on September 17)

    • Problem Set 1 Study Design 2013 File

    • Assignment Due Date:  September 24, 2013 at the beginning of Small Group Section