Association and Causation — Flashcards

Association and Causation — Flashcards

Association and Causation — Flashcards
#1

_____ studies are useful for measuring odds ratio (OR)

#2

_____ bias occurs due to differential hospital admission rates.

#3

A _____ case-control study is essentially a case-control study that is present inside a cohort study.

#4

IDR = (_____)/(sum of time periods for all disease free individuals at risk)

#5

Selection bias is an error introduced in _____ that occurs due to a nonrandom sampling or treatment allocation of subjects

#6

_____ = # of existing cases / total # of people in a population at a point in time

#7

_____ bias or prevalence-incidence bias is due to the selective survival in prevalent cases usually seen in fatal diseases.

#8

Excluding skin cancer, which of the listed three demographics count the incidence of the following cancers as their top 3 most common in the United States? _____

Hint: Men, Women, or Children (age 0-14)?

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#9

Validity of a Screening Test: No answer _____

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#10

nested case control is a type of _____

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