A Review of Epidemiology Concepts and Statistics
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About this Class
In partnership with the NIH Clinical Center's Biostatistics and Clinical Epidemiology Service (BCES), the NIH Library is offering a several trainings that cover general concepts behind statistics and epidemiology. These trainings will help participants better understand and prepare data, interpret results and findings, design and prepare studies, and understand the results in published literature.
This four-hour online training will provide a brief review of the principles of epidemiology, outbreak investigations, implications in public health, key concepts and terms, and commonly used statistics in epidemiology (e.g., morbidity and mortality rates; incidence and prevalence; relative risk; odds ratio; sensitivity and specificity). Time will be devoted to questions from attendees and references will be provided for in-depth self-study.
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
- Define epidemiology and its key principles
- Share the purpose and function of outbreak investigations
- List common statistical methods in epidemiology
- Describe when to use different statistical tests and measures
Explain measures of association and confounding