Ecological studies US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Ecological studies Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: _____ studies are observational studies that compare a group of people with disease to a group without disease
Answer: Case-control
Flashcard 2: How are prevalence and incidence related? _____
Answer: Prevalence = Incidence X Duration
Flashcard 3: Assembly Bias is a type of selection bias instead of a confounding bias because it occurs during the _____
Answer: selection process of subjects
Flashcard 4: What type of study design starts with cohort studies in which participants are followed over time, and participants who develop an outcome of interest become cases for a case-control study?_____
Answer: Nested case-control design
Flashcard 5: A meta-analysis improves the strength of evidence and _____ of study findings
Answer: generalizability
Flashcard 6: What type of studies assess the frequency of a given characteristic and a given outcome using population data?_____
Answer: Ecological study
Flashcard 7: What is the ANOVA test used for? (biostatistics)
Answer: Compare means of three or more groups.
Flashcard 8: prevalence (epidemiology)
Answer: # existing cases/population at risk ...at a discrete point in time
Flashcard 9: meta-analysis (epidemiology)
Answer: Study that pools data from other studies and analyzes them in aggregate to achieve greater statistical power
Flashcard 10: incidence (epidemiology)
Answer: # new cases/population at risk ...over a specified time period (i.e. a compound rate)
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