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01:26Introduction to Epidemiology
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01:25Statistical Methods for Analyzing Epidemiological Data
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01:20Study Designs in Epidemiology
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Observational studies are those where the researcher does not intervene but rather observes natural variations. They include cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies.
Observational studies are those where the researcher does not intervene but rather observes natural variations. They include cross-sectional, cohort, and case-control studies.
01:18Steps in Outbreak Investigation
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01:21Causality in Epidemiology
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EXPERIMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY : INTRODUCTORY
1Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
The Journal of Experimental Medicine
|October 30, 2009
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