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Notice to Readers: Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Methods
CDC and Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health will co-sponsor
a course, "Epidemiology in Action: Intermediate Methods" during February 25--March
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health professionals who have had training and experience in basic applied epidemiology
and would like training in additional quantitative skills related to analysis and
interpretation of epidemiologic data.
The course will review the fundamentals of descriptive epidemiology
and biostatistics, measures of association, normal and binomial distributions,
confounding, statistical tests, stratification, logistic regression, models, and computers as used
in epidemiology. Prerequisite is an introductory course in epidemiology, such
as Epidemiology in Action, International Course in Applied Epidemiology or any
other introductory class. There is a tuition charge.
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