Course EPIB-609: Seminar for PhD students in Epidemiology: Fall 2010 and Winter 2011

[For Winter semester, seminars are held in Room 25, Purvis Hall, 11-12.30pm Thursdays]

Schedule for Fall/Winter term (tentative); website last updated on Dec 7.

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Date Topic Moderators Material
       
09.13 Lifetables: from Graunt to Greenwood, K-M to N-A Hanley link
09.20 On the Mode of Communication of Cholera Buckeridge, Goldberg link
09.27 Farr 'on Prognosis'; Vandenbrouche/Morabia on 'risks and rates' Harper link
       
10.04 Semmelweis Buckeridge link
10.18 Cohort Studies: History of the method (Doll) Boivin link
10.25 The case-control study: origins and early development (Paneth et al.) Goldberg link
       
11.01 Social class and mental illness Fuhrer link
11.08 Smoking Kaufman link
11.15 Causation Kaufman link
11.22 Diet Paradis link
11.29 HRT Lippman link
       
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01.06 Woolf55 / Mantel73 / Miettinen76 Hanley link
01.13 Wacholder trio Several link
01.20 Confounding (Vandenbrouche / Cook&Miettinen) Kaufman/Boivin link
01.27 Etiologic & prevented fractions Hanley link
       
02.03 Connections: 'case-controling' & fitting of Cox model Suissa & Hanley link
02.10 Causal Inference & infectious disease epidemiology Manges link
02.17 Design&analysis of RCTs requiring prolonged observation. Shapiro link
02.24 ---- reading week ----- ---- ----
       
03.03 Morris: Uses of Epidemiology Harper link
03.10 Epidemiologic Research: terms and concepts Miettinen link
03.17 Epidemiologic Research: terms and concepts Miettinen link
03.24 Epidemiologic Research: terms and concepts Miettinen link
03.31 Epidemiologic Research: terms and concepts Miettinen link
       
04.07 Epidemiologic Research: terms and concepts Miettinen link
       
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