Longitudinal vs cross-sectional approaches US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Longitudinal vs cross-sectional approaches 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: Are case-control studies useful for measuring incidence and/or prevalence? _____
Answer: Neither
Flashcard 4: _____ surveys are observational studies that compare a frequency of disease and frequency of risk related factors at one time point
Answer: Cross-sectional
Flashcard 5: What type of study uses subjects as their own controls?_____
Answer: Crossover studies
Flashcard 6: For a short duration disease, how are prevalence and incidence related? _____
Answer: Prevalence ~ Incidence
Flashcard 7: 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 8: What is the ANOVA test used for? (biostatistics)
Answer: Compare means of three or more groups.
Flashcard 9: prevalence (epidemiology)
Answer: # existing cases/population at risk ...at a discrete point in time
Flashcard 10: meta-analysis (epidemiology)
Answer: Study that pools data from other studies and analyzes them in aggregate to achieve greater statistical power
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