學分:	3		
<br>上課時間:	15:30~18:20 星期二	
<br>科目中文名稱:醫學統計與流行病學
<br>科目英文名稱:Medical Statistics and Epidemiology
<br>任課教師    :熊昭 鍾仁華
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<br>一、課程說明:
<br>	    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
<br>              究所需的基本知識與方法。
<br>二、指定用書:
<br>     	Leon Gordis： Epidemiology, (Saunders, Elsevier)
<br>          Pagano and Gauvreau：Principles of Biostatistics  
<br>                                      (Duxbury Thomson Learning) 
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<br>以流行病學的內容為經，統計方法為緯來講授此課程。
<br>流行病學方面大綱如下:
<br>Epidemiology approach to disease and intervention
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<br>1. Measuring the occurrence of disease  
<br>    I. Morbidity    II. Mortality 
<br>2. Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests.
<br>3. Natural history of disease：ways of expressing prognosis 
<br>4. Assessing the efficacy of preventive and therapeutic measures：
<br>randomized trials  
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<br>    Using epidemiology to identify the cause of disease 
<br>5. Cohort studies
<br>6. Case-control studies and other study designs 
<br>7. Estimating risk：is there an association ?
<br>    Estimating the potential for prevention 
<br>8. Comparing cohort and case-control studies
<br>9. From association to causation：deriving inferences from epidemiologic studies
<br>10. On causal inferences：bias, confounding , and interaction
<br>11. Identifying the role of genetic and environmental factors in disease causation
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<br>      Applying epidemiology to evaluation and policy 
<br>12. Using epidemiology to evaluate health services
<br>13. Epidemiologic approach to evaluating screening programs 
<br>14. Epidemiology and public policy
<br>15. Ethical and professional issues in Epidemiology
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<br>醫學統計方面大綱如下
<br>1. Data presentation
<br>2. Numerical summary measures
<br>3. Rates and standardization
<br>4. Probability and distributions    
<br>5. Sampling distribution of the mean
<br>6. Confidence interval 
<br>7. Hypothesis testing
<br>8. Comparison of two means 
<br>9. Inference on proportions
<br>10. Analysis of variance
<br>11. Contingency tables
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