Disease Detectives B/C

[Nerd_Bunny]

Ah, she's only been director for a few years. Oops.

1. What is another name for incidence proportion?
2. Define the secondary attack rate.
3. In what type of scenario would I want a cohort study vs a case-control study? Give an example.
4. How many food-borne illness cases are there every year in the US?

Answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. Incidence rate?
2. The attack rate of new cases among the contacts of known cases
3. If the disease is rare, you would want to use a case-control study. However, case-control studies can only be retrospective, so if you want to run an experiment to figure out the effects of an exposure on a disease, you would run a cohort study.
4. Around 240 000?

1. Attack rate or risk
2. Correct.
3. Correct.
4. 48 million
Your turn!

[Killboe]

Div B Questions

1. How do you find the standard deviation?
2. What does "C.D.C" stand for?
3. What is Mad Cow Disease caused by?
4. What is "Etiology"
5. What's a sporadic disease?
6. What does "NNT" stand for?
7. Systematic error due to interviewers subconscious or conscious gathering of selective data.

[Tailsfan101]

Div B Questions

1. How do you find the standard deviation?
2. What does "C.D.C" stand for?
3. What is Mad Cow Disease caused by?
4. What is "Etiology"
5. What's a sporadic disease?
6. What does "NNT" stand for?
7. Systematic error due to interviewers subconscious or conscious gathering of selective data.

Answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. [math]s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \overline{x})^2}{N-1} }[/math]
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Why isn't it CDCP?)
3. A prion
4. The study of a cause of a disease or outbreak
5. A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly
6. Number needed to treat
7. Subconscious

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Div B Questions

1. How do you find the standard deviation?
2. What does "C.D.C" stand for?
3. What is Mad Cow Disease caused by?
4. What is "Etiology"
5. What's a sporadic disease?
6. What does "NNT" stand for?
7. Systematic error due to interviewers subconscious or conscious gathering of selective data.

Answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. [math]s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \overline{x})^2}{N-1} }[/math]
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Why isn't it CDCP?)
3. A prion
4. The study of a cause of a disease or outbreak
5. A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly
6. Number needed to treat
7. Subconscious

I think seven is supposed to be (Click to Show Hidden Text)

myside bias/confirmation bias

[Killboe]

Div B Questions

1. How do you find the standard deviation?
2. What does "C.D.C" stand for?
3. What is Mad Cow Disease caused by?
4. What is "Etiology"
5. What's a sporadic disease?
6. What does "NNT" stand for?
7. Systematic error due to interviewers subconscious or conscious gathering of selective data.

Answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. [math]s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \overline{x})^2}{N-1} }[/math]
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Why isn't it CDCP?)
3. A prion
4. The study of a cause of a disease or outbreak
5. A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly
6. Number needed to treat
7. Subconscious

Close! #7 Is confirmation bias

[Killboe]

Div B Questions

1. How do you find the standard deviation?
2. What does "C.D.C" stand for?
3. What is Mad Cow Disease caused by?
4. What is "Etiology"
5. What's a sporadic disease?
6. What does "NNT" stand for?
7. Systematic error due to interviewers subconscious or conscious gathering of selective data.

Answers (Click to Show Hidden Text)

1. [math]s = \sqrt{\frac{\sum_{i=1}^N (x_i - \overline{x})^2}{N-1} }[/math]
2. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Why isn't it CDCP?)
3. A prion
4. The study of a cause of a disease or outbreak
5. A disease that occurs infrequently and irregularly
6. Number needed to treat
7. Subconscious

I think seven is supposed to be (Click to Show Hidden Text)

myside bias/confirmation bias

Correct! Your turn!

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[Tailsfan101]

I think Tailsfan should go

Okay!

1. What is the Pro-MED?
2. What is natality?
3. Define cluster.
4. What is the name for the first case in an outbreak?
5. Define random error.
6. What is the name for any error other than random error?

[IcsTam]

I think Tailsfan should go

Okay!

1. What is the Pro-MED?
2. What is natality?
3. Define cluster.
4. What is the name for the first case in an outbreak?
5. Define random error.
6. What is the name for any error other than random error?

1. I have no idea.
2. Number of births to the size of the population
3. An aggregation of cases over a certain time and geographical location.
4. Index case
5. Statistical variations in the data based on measurements of the tools used.
6. Systematic Error Edit: I looked up 1. and see that it's an international society for infectious diseases.

[Tailsfan101]

I think Tailsfan should go

Okay!

1. What is the Pro-MED?
2. What is natality?
3. Define cluster.
4. What is the name for the first case in an outbreak?
5. Define random error.
6. What is the name for any error other than random error?

1. I have no idea.
2. Number of births to the size of the population
3. An aggregation of cases over a certain time and geographical location.
4. Index case
5. Statistical variations in the data based on measurements of the tools used.
6. Systematic Error Edit: I looked up 1. and see that it's an international society for infectious diseases.

All correct, #1 is the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases. Your turn!