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MPH5200

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Organisational Unit

Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine

Coordinator(s)

Professor Rory Wolfe

Quota applies

This unit is quota restricted. Selection is on a first-in, first enrolled basis.

Offered

Alfred Hospital

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Confounding and effect modification, logistic regression, conditional logistic regression for matched case-control studies, linear regression, diagnostics to assess model fit, model estimation methods, Poisson regression for rates, Stata statistical software.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. learn regression methods as applied to epidemiological data.
  2. gain an understanding of regression methods in terms of the epidemiological concepts of confounding and effect modification.
  3. apply regression methods to example datasets using statistical software on a laptop computer.
  4. gain an understanding and the skills to interpret regression methods in published articles on epidemiological research studies.

Assessment

Four written assignments (10%, 35%, 35%, 20% each)

Workload requirements

2 x 2 block days.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Professor Rory Wolfe

Prerequisites

MPH5040 and MPH5041.

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.med.monash.edu.au/epidemiology/pgrad