Syllabus
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Course Code: ST-303 & ST-304 Course Name: (vi) Statistical Methods in Epidemiology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Measures of disease frequency: Mortality/Morbidity rates, incidence, rates, prevalence rates. Sources of mortality/Morbidity statistics-hospital records, vital statistics records. Measures of accuracy or validity, sensitivity index, specificity index. | |
| 2 | Epidemiologic concepts of diseases, Factors which determine the occurrence of diseases, models of transmission of infection, incubation period, disease spectrum and herd immunity. Observational studies in Epidemiology: Retrospective and prospective studies. Measures of association :Relative risk, odds ratio, attributable risk. | |
| 3 | Statistic techniques used in analysis: Cornfield and Garts’ method, Mantel.Haenszel method. Analysis of data from matched samples, logistic regression approach. Experimental Epidemiology: clinical and community trials. Statistical Techniques: Methods for comparison of the two treatments. Crossover design with Garts and McNamara test.Randomization in a clinical trial, sequential methods in clinical trials.Clinical lifetables. | |
| 4 | Assessment of survivability in clinical trials. Mathematical Modelling in Epidemiology: simple epidemic model, Generalized epidemic models, Reed First and Green wood models, models for carrier borne and host vector diseases. | |
