BIOS601 AGENDA: Wednesday September 16, 2010
[updated September 13, 2010]
Lecture: Intro to Epidemiology and Measures of Occurrence - 2
- déjà
- Definitions of Epidemiology
- States vs. Events
- Population
An aggregate of people, defined by membership-defining...
- event -> "cohort" ( closed population i.e. closed for exit)
or
- state - for duration of state -> Open population (open for exit) / dynamic / turnover
- Prevalence (of a state)
- Population-time
- Incidence ( new events in members "at risk" for the event )
- Incidence density (momentary or average over a span of time)
- Hazard (momentary, but more commonly used w.r.t a closed population)
- Force of morbidity/mortality / Intensity
- Cumulative Incidence (over a span of cohort time), and associated terms
- Risk
- its complement: Survival proportion
- New
- (more on) Mathematical link between Incidence Density and Cumulative Incidence
- Relationship between Prevalence, Incidence, and Duration in a State
- Length-biased sampling
- Population Pyramids
Pyramids for Canada, the provinces and territories from 1901 to 2001
- Lexis Diagram - 2 time axes; Breslow&Day section 2.2
- Current Life Tables and Cohort Life Tables
- Concepts/Definitions in early chapters in Clayton & Hills
- Links to Resources pages
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