學分: 3
上課時間: 15:20~18:10 星期二
科目中文名稱:醫學統計與流行病學
科目英文名稱:Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
任課教師 :熊昭
一、課程說明:
此課程將以流行病學的內容為經,統計方法為緯來講授,是醫學科學研
究所需的基本知識與方法。
二、指定用書:
Leon Gordis: Epidemiology, (Saunders, Elsevier)
Pagano and Gauvreau:Principles of Biostatistics
(Duxbury Thomson Learning)
以流行病學的內容為經,統計方法為緯來講授此課程。
流行病學方面大綱如下:
Epidemiology approach to disease and intervention
1. Measuring the occurrence of disease
I. Morbidity II. Mortality
2. Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests.
3. Natural history of disease:ways of expressing prognosis
4. Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures:
randomized trials
Using epidemiology to identify the cause of disease
5. Cohort studies
6. Case-control studies and other study designs
7. Estimating risk:is there an association ?
Estimating the potential for prevention
8. Comparing cohort and case-control studies
9. From association to causation:deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies
10. On causal inferences:bias, confounding , and interaction
11. Identifying the role of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation
Applying epidemiology to evaluation and policy
12. Using epidemiology to evaluate health services
13. Epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs
14. Epidemiology and public policy
15. Ethical and professional issues in Epidemiology
醫學統計方面大綱如下
1. Data presentation
2. Numerical summary measures
3. Rates and standardization
4. Probability and distributions
5. Sampling distribution of the mean
6. Confidence interval
7. Hypothesis testing
8. Comparison of two means
9. Inference on proportions
10. Analysis of variance
11. Contingency tables