FMSC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Microcephaly, Confounding, Selection Bias
27 Feb 2018
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Population a group of people with some common characteristics such as age, race, gender, or place and residence. Target population is the population for which you would like to make some conclusions (ie. students in fmsc310, umd students, etc. ) Prevalence is the number of existing cases in the present time. Incidence is the number of new cases of disease or health outcome. Calculation = # of cases of diseases (new or existing)/total population at risk. Individual and/or social risk factors exposures: population, sample - smaller samples that represents everyone else in our larger sample, data collection information data. Inference statistics/summarizes information: study designs, descriptive studies will help us to come up with hypothesis about our studies. Person, place, and time help us form a hypothesis: analytical studies that will help us test our hypothesis, observational looking at people and following them over time, experimental lab setting, manipulate control group.
