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

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[seminars are held in Room 24, Purvis Hall, 12.30pm-3.30pm Mondays]

Schedule (tentative); website last updated on July 11, 2011.

Date Topic Moderators Material
       
hour3 Practicum Hanley/Ionescu-Ittu link
       
09.12 Farr 'on Prognosis'; Vandenbrouche/Morabia on 'risks and rates' Hanley link
09.19 Etiologic & prevented fractions Hanley, Miettinen link
09.26 On the Mode of Communication of Cholera Buckeridge, Goldberg link
       
10.03 Design&analysis of RCTs requiring prolonged observation Shapiro link
10.17 Cohort Studies: History of the method (Doll) Boivin link
10.24 The case-control study: origins and early development (Paneth et al.) Hanley link
10.31 The Causes of Cancer (Doll & Peto) Franco link
       
11.07 Woolf55 / Mantel73 / Miettinen76 Hanley, Miettinen link
11.14 Connections: 'case-controling' & fitting of Cox model Suissa, Hanley link
11.21 Confounding (Vandenbrouche / Cook&Miettinen) Hanley link
11.28 Open .. link
       
12.05 Morris: Uses of Epidemiology Harper link