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Schedule

TopThis module is offered on Thursdays, 6pm to 9pm, starting 15 August 2015.
There are optional tutorials (Mondays 12 noon to 1pm), and practicals session using STATA on selected Saturdays (9am to 12noon). Students are strongly encouraged to attend tutorials and practicals.

Brief Module Description

TopThis module with be integrated with various epidemiological study designs. It will cover descriptive and inferential statistics, and introduce fundamental concepts of multi-variable analyses.

Learning Outcomes

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Read and interpret public health literature, data, and results
Prepare you with quantitative reasoning skills to analyse your own data

Prerequisites

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Teaching Modes

TopLecture, tutorial, practicals

Syllabus

Top1. Overview
2. Population vs sample for study designs; Data distribution; How to draw a random sample
3. Types of data; Exploratory data summary and visualisation; Distributional properties, outliers (+ practical)
4. Bivariate scatterplots; Correlation; Correlation coefficient
5. Confidence intervals
6. Probability; Conditional probabilities; Independence; Bayes theroem
7. Hypothesis testing
8. Analysis of categorical data (+ practical)
9. Analysis of continuous data (+ practical)
10. Univariate regression (+practical)
11. Introduction to multi-variable analyses; Bias, confounding, and effect measures

Assessment

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Quizzes (40%) + Final exam (60%)

Disclamier

TopThe Master of Public Health programme requires attendance of 75 percent of all lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars.

When a student is unable to attend the required sessions, an excuse may be granted for limited time periods upon the production of evidence of illness, misadventure or leave of absence having been granted.

Students must inform the MPH Office if any of the above has taken place.

Failure to meet attendance requirements will affect module grading.

Resources

TopMPH Website - http://www.sph.nus.edu.sg/index.php/education-training/graduate-programmes/master-of-public-health/curriculum