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...

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...

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...

Practical epidemiology and biostatistics in research. III. Rates.

Review of, "Biostatistics and Epidemiology" by S. Wassertheil-Smoller

If you need to know anything basic about Biostatistics and Epidemiology, this book belongs in your library! Unlike most science and technology books – which, I have concluded after nearly 42 years in this business, tend to be written less to teach and communicate information than to impress the reader with how much the author knows about the subject matter – this one, refreshingly and quite suc...