Introduction to Epidemiology and Environmental Health
Week 8 - Study designs in epidemiology II
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
At the end of this lesson, student will be able to:
- Define and describe main attributes of cohort studies, their advantages and disadvantages
- Define and describe main attributes of case-control studies, their advantages and disadvantages
- Understand the following concepts: sample attrition, representativeness, recall bias, selection bias
- Understand the difference between relative risk and odds ratio