STAT 344

Studying the factors that increase the risk of disease is a direct application of statistics. The course introduces the core concepts of epidemiology, the study of the cause and spread of diseases, to examine how we measure disease risk and design studies to examine the attributable risk to risk factor. Topics include measures of disease risk and impact, reliability of diagnostics tests, threats to the validity of a study, and health topics including outbreak investigation and disease surveillance. Credit will be granted for only one of STAT 344 or STAT 472(2018-2019) or STAT 472(2020-2021).