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Advanced special module in Epidemiology and biostatistics

The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to develop the participant’s professional competences regarding:

  • critical review and assessment of scientific papers which include epidemiological data and analyses
  • analysis of data from standard epidemiological studies, including bivariate, stratified and regression analyses

In-depth study of scientific papers; confounding and bias; matching; intervention studies; multiple logistic regression analysis; analysis of data.

The module builds on MPH module 1 and aims to enable the participants to:

  • Be familiar with basic concepts form epidemiology and statistics introduced in MPH module 1
  • Analyse simple data from standard epidemiology studies using suitable statistical software (at present SAS)
  • Critical read scientific papers which include analysis of epidemiological data.

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Workload and ECTS

Class workloadTotal workloadECTS
442007.5