Graduate Prerequisites: (SPHEP770 OR SPHEP813 OR SPHEP854) AND SPHBS723 or SPHBS730 - This is a third-level epidemiologic methods course intended for advanced Masters and Doctoral students who desire to build depth in their understanding of case-control studies. This course will develop knowledge of their design, analytic issues, challenges, and strengths, from a practical standpoint and associated theoretical framework, including identification of a study base, selection of cases and controls, collection of exposure information, consideration of sources of bias, and approaches to control for confounding. Students design their own case-control study, step-by-step in parallel with the course material. Published papers will be used to illustrate design, bias, and analytic issues through reading and discussion. Each class includes a lecture and discussion of assigned articles.

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