Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Epidemiology and biostatistics.

The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics integrates diverse educational programs with a rapidly growing research portfolio. Graduate students have the opportunity to study and participate in faculty research projects in a variety of academic disciplines, including infectious disease, cancer, nutritional and disaster epidemiology, applied biostatistical methods, and public health laborat...

Clinical epidemiology and biostatistics: a primer for orthopaedic surgeons.

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution and determinants of disease frequency. In the fifth century BC, Hippocrates suggested that the development of human disease might be related to the external and internal environment of an individual. In the 1600s and 1800s in England, John Graunt and William Farr quantified vital statistics on the basis of birth and death records. In the 1850s, John...

EPI-546: Fundamentals of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

I. Quantifying Uncertainty Probability and Odds Medical data is inherently uncertain. To characterize uncertainty we can use words like "unlikely", "possible", "suspected", “consistent with”, or "probable" to describe gradations of belief. However, the exact meaning of these qualitative descriptions has been shown to vary tremendously between different clinicians. Fortunately, uncertainty can b...

Development of the Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Skills (BACES) assessment for medical residents.

BACKGROUND Although biostatistics and clinical epidemiology are essential for comprehending medical evidence, research has shown consistently low and variable knowledge among postgraduate medical trainees. Simultaneously, there has been an increase in the complexity of statistical methods among top-tier medical journals. AIMS To develop the Biostatics and Clinical Epidemiology Skills (BACES) ...

Practical epidemiology and biostatistics in research. III. Rates.