James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2001

TV5230:03

Epidemiology 2

Townsville

Prerequisites: (TV3031 or TV3032) or equivalent

26 lectures, 13 tutorials, 26 hours practicals. Second semester.

Available to graduate students.

Staff: To be advised.

A course of lectures, assignments and seminars on epidemiological and statistical methods. Topics include survey design, logistic and log-linear regression models, censored data and survival analysis.

Learning Objectives:

  1. design epidemiological surveys;
  2. understand and apply contemporary epidemiological method;
  3. be able to analyse complex epidemiological data sets using statistical software.

Assessment by assignments (100%).