BIOS601 AGENDA: Wednesday September 22, 2010

Lecture: Intro to Epidemiology and Measures of Occurrence - 3

• 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   1    |    2