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The rules for Disease Detectives seem to be getting more and more vague every year, regarding the math part of the event, which is, in itself, the most important part of the competition. :/

You are essentially correct in which you said mathematics is an important part of Disease Detectives ...

Can someone explain the difference between Cohort and Case Control? For instance, when one would be used as opposed to the other? I know one compares the exposed and non-exposed vs those with the disease and not - however, what is the real difference between Odds ratio and Relative Risk?

While ...

Kokonilly wrote:

tornado guy wrote:

foreverphysics wrote:http://www.change.org/start-a-petition
Maybe we could petition them?

Maybe. It would be helpful though to know which teams would be going, and which teams want to go..

...And you won't know that until state competitions get going.

Wait you want to petition it being at UCF?

Okay, the idea of the topic is - what kind of groups do you associate with, and how does it affect Science Olympiad, or how it doesn't, whatever, I just want to kind of see what people in Science Olympiad do. Only put major ones, not every little group. For example, I associate myself with ...

Does anybody know any good books we could use to help us study?

Hi, these aren't "Disease Detectives" books, but they are what I use to study (I got tenth nationals last year so they work).

"Principles of Epidemiology": http://www.cdc.gov/training/products/ss1000/ss1000-ol.pdf
"The Little Book ...

My primary event is Disease Detectives, and over the last year I've probably seen over 30 tests scattered on the internet. If I cite the location where I've taken them from, can I post them to the test exchange, or should I contact the makers and gain direct permission? If this isn't necessary, you ...

Can someone explain the difference between Cohort and Case Control? For instance, when one would be used as opposed to the other? I know one compares the exposed and non-exposed vs those with the disease and not - however, what is the real difference between Odds ratio and Relative Risk?

While ...

Does anyone know if there's going to be any twists on it this year, or just same old ED?

The rules for Disease Detectives seem to be getting more and more vague every year, regarding the math part of the event, which is, in itself, the most important part of the competition. :/

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