Lesson 4 - Comparing Groups In Terms of Disease Occurrence and Frequency

Lesson 4 Objectives

Upon completion of this lesson, you should be able to:

Organize disease frequency data into a 2 x 2 epidemiological table.
Calculate and describe Risk Ratios and Odds Ratios to compare groups.
Calculate and describe Risk Differences and Population Attributable Risk to compare groups.
Recognize situations in which direct or indirect standardization should be considered.
Given the required data, standardize a rate with a direct and indirect method.