EPID 2670

Moving from Descriptive to Analytic Approaches



EPI 2670

 

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Instructor:

  Thomas Songer,PhD

 

Lecture Description:

  This lecture is designed to address the process that injury epidemiologists undertake to understand the risk factors involved in injuries. It builds upon the injury surveillance lecture and discusses the distinction between descriptive types of studies and analytic studies.


  On completion of the lecture, readers will be able to:

  • Distinguish the difference between descriptive and analytic studies
  • Identify the different study designs in analytic studies
  • Understand the differences between these study designs



This lecture was last modified on 29 May 2008

For further information about the course, please contact Thomas Songer at tjs@pitt.edu

Thomas Songer, PhD
Dept. of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA