PHE5020 Week 5 Knowledge Check Quiz

Question 1 All the following statements are true for the odds ratio except:

can be calculated obtained from case-control studies.

it is the incidence between the exposed divided the incidence between the un-exposed.

it is an estimate of relative risk.

it tends to be biased towards 1.

Question 2 The analysis of epidemiological studies is based on the following except:

contingency tables

statistics that measure effects

measuring the confounders

experimental effect size.

Question 3: Epidemiology describes the distribution of disease in terms of Person, Place and Time.

                True

                False

Question 4 Epidemiological studies usually describe the characteristics of people in terms of age, gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status and religion, among others.

                True

                False

Question 5 The most important difference between odds ratios and relative risks is that odds ratios measure incidence directly from the observed data.

                True

                False