週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
Week 1 |
2/24 |
Introduction & Orientation (CKC & AA)
Natural history of disease and disease surveillance (CKC) |
Week 2 |
3/3 |
Hypothesis testing, analysis of variance (ANOVA) and its connection to linear regression models (AA) |
Week 3 |
3/10 |
Direct likelihood method. Generalized linear models (GLM) (AA) |
Week 4 |
3/17 |
Practice in R: linear models (AA) |
Week 5 |
3/24 |
Practice in R: GLM. Chi-square test and goodness-of-fit (AA) |
Week 6 |
3/31 |
Dynamical systems. Differential equations (AA) |
Week 7 |
4/7 |
Practice in R: Differential equations and their fit to the data (AA) |
Week 8 |
4/14 |
Survival analysis (AA) |
Week 9 |
4/21 |
Practice in R. Mid-term assignment (40% by AA) |
Week 10 |
4/28 |
Power calculation and sample size estimation with practice (CKC) |
Week 11 |
5/5 |
Critical appraisal: Prevalence, trends, and associated social demographics of morbid obesity in survey (CKC) |
Week 12 |
5/12 |
Special topic: Ecological study (CKC) |
Week 13 |
5/19 |
Critical appraisal: Charcoal-burning suicide and media (CKC) |
Week 14 |
5/26 |
Special topic: Genetic epidemiology and biobank (CKC) |
Week 15 |
6/2 |
Critical appraisal: Deriving ethnic-specific BMI cutoff points for assessing diabetes risk (CKC) |
Week 16 |
6/9 |
Critical appraisal: Exposure assessment in occupation epidemiology (CKC) |
Week 17 |
6/16 |
Final Exam in epidemiology (40% by CKC) |
Week 18 |
6/23 |
Review (optional) |