Population Health Management Spring Course, Epidemiology and Methods
Study design and comparative measures: causes and predictors

If you do a research study, what design should you use? Are you looking for causes or predictors? And what is exactly the difference? How should I compare groups, and how do I express and quantify the difference? What if one group is older, or the other group has more men? How do I know if there is bias?

These are all pertinent questions that you must ask before you design a study. In this week we will teach you to ask the correct questions, and how to answer them. In the morning we will present the topics and give you tools for the afternoon programme, when we will discuss articles, and do our own calculations. Ever drawn your own Kaplan-Meier survival curve without a computer programme? Here you will learn how it works.

In the evening eminent epidemiologists will give insights in how they answered the questions, and applied this to actual research questions.