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- Perform exploratory data analysis using descriptive statistics.
- Evaluate morbidity and mortality using ratios, proportions, and rates.
- Perform direct and indirect methods of adjustment of overall rates.
- Construct clinical life table in epidemiologic studies.
- Recognize the assumptions associated with construction of a life table.
- Calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities of health-related events.
- Calculate sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values.
- Recognize and describe the elements in the design and conduct of a randomized clinical trial, a cohort study, a case-control study, and a cross-sectional study.
- Calculate measures of association in identifying risk factors of diseases.
- Calculate a chi-square statistic to test the significance of a measure of association and interpret it using probability concepts.
- Identify biases and their consequences in published literature.
- Describe criteria for characterizing the causality of associations.
- Recognize the presence of effect modifiers.
- Explain the use of epidemiology in the genetics application.
- Explain the use of epidemiology in the evaluation of screening process.
- Describe the impact of epidemiology on national and local policy.
- Describe the influence of epidemiology on ethical and professional issues
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